Mohan P. Joshi

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Introduction: Participatory tutorial is a technique in which student-led seminars are held. In such small group teaching method understanding and critical thinking of the subject is more than didactic lectures. Objective: To introduce innovative teaching technique & assess satisfaction of students. Results: Total 150 students participated in the seminar. Out of students participated, 91% were satisfied with this teaching technique. 89% students agreed that it assisted their learning and 88% students agreed that it stimulated their thinking process. Conclusion: Participatory tutorial is one of the form of interactive teaching method. Implementation of such method would be beneficial for students and would help them to understand the subject more interestingly. Keywords: Participatory tutorial, Innovative teaching technique, Student led seminars, Interactive learning.

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Medical students have been known to be victims of tremendous mental stress. It is important for medical educators to know the magnitude of depression in students and factors causing them, which not only affect their health and academic performance but also may lead to serious consequences like suicide. This is a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study using random sampling where the students are selected according to the year of study. A self-designed proforma and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was used to access the level of depression. Out of the total 325 eligible students, 305 students participated in this study with the response rate of 93.84%. The overall prevalence of depression was found to be 32.46%. Among them 17.05% were having mild depression, 12.79% were moderately depressed while 2.62% had severe depression as per Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Academic performance and low family income were found to have strong association (OR=2, pwas also found to be more common in students suffering from depression (OR=2.2, pwas also strongly associated with depression (OR=8.1, p Keywords: Family income, Academic performance, Depression, Training satisfaction, Addiction, Medical undergraduates.

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