Improving teaching efficiency on medical universities ??? A comparative study of Hungarian and foreign medical university students??? feedbacks regarding learning by KOLLAR method

Abstract

Janos Kollar, Bernadett Babusa, Adrienne Stauder, János Pilling, Réka Cserepes, Edit Czeglédi

Objective. KOLLAR method is a learning and teaching promoting method that frames the generally missing elements into education. The word is an acronym namely KO is for Keys of Originality, L is for Learning, L is for Lecturing, A is for Application of social media, and R is for Relaxation. The aim of the cross-sectional study was the assessment of the evaluation of the KOLLAR method among medical university students during the development and progress of the method. Methods. Participants were first and third grade medical university students of Debrecen University, (n=1893; 56% was foreign student). The evaluation of the method was rated on a six-item scale, each item scored from 0 to 6. The items were analyzed separately, and as an aggregated score. Data were collected between the years 2002-2012. Results. According to the results of analyses using the aggregated index of evaluation (principal component, R2 =59%), the Hungarian, the first year, and the physiotherapy students evaluated the method more positively than the foreign (Z=- 4.460, p<.001), the third year (Z=-3.994, p<.001), and the medical students (H(2)=10.014, p=.007). The evaluation of the courses become better during the years. Conclusions. The evaluation of the KOLLAR method was generally favorable among medical university students which demonstrated an improving trend during the years of crystallization process.