A Five-Year Trend of Medical Books among House Officers of Abbottabad-In the Perspective Of Self-Regulated Learning Mode

OBJECTIVES In the current study, the primary motive is to access the choices of medical books and trends among house officers retrospectively, from 1st year to the final year of MBBS. METHODOLOGY After approval of the study from the ethical committee, the cross-sectional study was undertaken in the public-private medical teaching hospitals of Abbottabad-Pakistan. The study was conducted from January 2023 to January 2024. The nonprobability purposive sampling technique was applied for data collection on a predesigned written questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS software version 21. RESULTSAround 344 house officers (n=344) participated in the present study. Most of the participants were male {65% (225/344)}. About 300/344 use electronic media with significant female gender predominance (p=0.03). In terms of 5-year academic performance, 60% of females (71/119) had average scores in MBBS with a significance of 0.003. The rate of below-average results was 32% (96/300) in participants who preferred electronic media, while the rate was only 18% (8/44) in participants who used print media with a significance of 0.05. The fundamentals of gynecology by Arshad Chohan was significantly preferred by females as compared to Irfan Masood by males with a p-value of 0.04. CONCLUSION The majority of house officers used the textbooks of international authors in the first 3 years of graduation as a standard primary book but here after many preferred the books of local authors. The use of electronic media to achieve the goal is common but the effect on academics was not productive.