Influence of Electronic Teaching Material availability on the General Pharmacology students success rate

J Navarro-Zaragoza1,2, MV Milanés1,2, ML Laorden1,2. 1Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Department of Pharmacology, Spain, 2Instituto Carlos III, Red de Trastornos Adictivos, Spain, 3IMIB, Instituto Murciano de Investigaci ó n Biosanitaria, Spain

Introduction

General Pharmacology is a subject that is taught in the third year of the Pharmacy Degree at the University of Murcia. Electronic teaching platform are very common currently and they have become very important and useful tools for students. Consolidation of these tools is considered as a main factor of success for the new degrees associated to the Bolonia Plan. The aim of this study was to determinate the influence of virtual teaching on students’ results.

Methods

For General Pharmacology subject teaching, we established a plan of availability of electronic teaching material for the students. Part of the lectures were imparted with full access to electronic material through SAKAI (reviews, power point presentations, reports, etc); and another part of the lectures were imparted without this supporting material, so that the students only had their hand-writing material written by themselves and recommended bibliography in Subject Guide. Evaluation of General Pharmacology was performed by a multiple choice test with 30 questions. A t-student test was performed to evaluate possible significant differences between both parts.

Results and Discussion

The Mean results (±SEM) were 7.47 ± 0.31 (over 10) for part 1, and 6.03 ± 0.54 for part 2. Significant differences were found between part 1 and 2 after performing the t-student test (P < 0.05).

Conclusion

These results show the importance of new tools in teaching, as they are Electronic Teaching Materials, which allow the students to improve their marks and obtain better results in Teaching-Learning process.