Debate to Update – IMSA-Iran

Name of the activity: Debate to Update

Country/NMO: IMSA-Iran

Program: Medical Education Systems

Contact information: contact [email protected]  to get in touch with the Activity Coordinator

Type of the activity: First-time Activity

Category: Capacity Building

Focus area:Students’ involvement in medical education | Non-formal/informal education

Sustainable Development Goals addressed: SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 4 (Quality Education)

General description:

Scientific and technological‌ changes increase the demand for improving health systems and provide an opportunity for medical education to take the lead in achieving these advances. Healthy lifestyle seeks to develop behaviors useful for maintaining people’s health and preventing high risk behaviors .
so, we challenged three topics by holding a debate as our method of running this project in which we achieved our goals by increasing people’s awareness around harms and benefits of each topic

Problem statement:

Medical education is evolving to meet health needs .expectations from health workers , demand clarity of some aspects that may need changes so we challenged topics that by food & medicine affect us.medical use of marijuana. Science shows the more meat we eat, the higher our risk of diabetes get but Many foods with meat are unhealthy. Articles shows the risks of GMF for health .Because of the reasons above ,we held a debate about their effects as we; medical students are expected to clarify.

Target groups:

• Medical students

Beneficiaries:

• General population
• Medical students
• Healthcare Students
• Doctors
• Youth

Objectives:

1:
● Raise the awareness of 32 medical students regarding factors of healthy lifestyle by
the end of Aug 2022 in a meeting with 2 groups of them debating
● Increase participant’s interest to participate in field of healthy lifestyle in Aug by pre-test and post-test evaluation
in Google Form
2:
● Raise the awareness of 32 medical students regarding the medical applications of
marijuana by the end of Aug 2022 in a meeting with 2 groups of them debating
● Increase participant’s interest to participate in field of medical application of marijuana
3:
● Raise the awareness of 32 medical students regarding carnivorous and vegetarian diets by the end of Aug 2022 in a meeting with 2 groups of them debating
● Increase participant’s interest to participate in field of carnivorous and vegetarian diets
4:
● Raise the awareness of 32 medical students regarding GMF by
the end of Aug 2022 in a meeting with 2 groups of them debating.
● Increase participant’s interest to participate in field if GMF

Indicators of Success:

1th :
-Pre & post-test results show a 20% rise in at least 70% of participants about healthy lifestyle.
-At least 60% of them report their confidence level with 4 scores of 5 on the post-evaluation form & a 2 score rise in confidence level of 60% of them.
2th :
-Pre & post-test results show a 20% rise in at least 70% of participants about marijuana.
-At least 60% of them report their confidence level with 4 scores of 5 on the post-evaluation
form & a 2 score rise in confidence level of 60% of them.
3th :
-Pre & post-test results show a 20% rise in at least 70% of participants about diets.
-At least 60% of them report their confidence level with 4 scores of 5 on the post-evaluation form & a 2
score rise in confidence level of 60% of them.
4th :
-Pre & post-test results show a 20% rise in at least 70% of participants about GMF.
-At least 60% of them report their confidence level with 4 scores of 5 on the post-evaluation form & a 2 score rise in confidence level of 60% of them.

Methodology:

●we held an OLM with the LC of Lebanon & our LC to set topics & dates. The co-coordinator of LeMSIC helped with methods & we had meetings to figure out project .
●Meetings will be on ZOOM . Debaters will
be selected by Google form & will be given a pre & post-test to evaluate.
●A “how to debate” session to explain the process,delivered by coordinator a week before & related articles will be given to Prepare.
●There’s 3 main sessions .First 32 participants in 8 rooms each with 4 people
(2 vs 2) discuss medical use of marijuana. In each room a judge will select winners based on self confidence, English skills, information &..
● then half of them will debate on vegetarian & carnivorous diet in 4 rooms, 2 vs 2 , two days later
●The top 8 people (4 vs 4) will debate on GMF, two days later .At the end winner will be announced.
●Certification of winner & OC (judge , data searcher , zoom supporter , graphic designer ) will be followed & evaluation and participants feedback will be done.

Plans for evaluation:

After the main sessions of the debate , the evaluation process will be defined with :
scale questions for each topic also open end questions for getting feedback. the answers of
the scale questions will be compared and the 2 score increase is expected.
SWOT analysis
Stakeholders analysis
Time line mapping with the help of Gantt chart so that main activities be modified
continuously.
This project is held with a pre-test and post-test quantitative questions that each question
has a score and there will be a number to compare the results of pre-test and post-test and.
also , one target is defined for each of the index . Activity consists of 32 participants , selected
out of the call form they’ve filled .Main debate sessions have 3 parts that in the last session
all the participants can attend .

External collaborations:

none