Babu Noushad

Maastricht University | University of Buraimi · Department of Educational Development and Research

Phenomenon: Pharmacology is a fundamental healthcare discipline, but it can be difficult and counterintuitive for learners to learn. Navigation toward understanding pharmacology can be troublesome, but once the threshold to comprehension is crossed, learners can experience a transformative shift in their ways of thinking and practicing. We conducte...

Background The global prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) among individuals with diabetes is 22.27%. This highlights the likelihood of developing burden of retinopathy within the at risk population and can have a detrimental impact on an individual’s quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study is to assess the vision-related QoL in individuals...

The prevalence of amblyopia in children in Eastern Mediterranean countries (EMR) varies from country to country. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the prevalence of amblyopia in children in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The present study was conducted in 2023 using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review an...

Studying texts constitutes a significant part of student learning in health professions education. Key to learning from text is the ability to effectively monitor one’s own cognitive performance and take appropriate regulatory steps for improvement. Inferential cues generated during a learning experience typically guide this monitoring process. It...

The think-aloud method is an established technique for studying human thought (cognitive) processes. Problem-solving and decision-making are essential skills for medical professionals, and the cognitive processes underlying these skills are complex. Studying these thought processes would enable educators, clinicians, and researchers to modify or re...

Healthcare workers from various disciplines responsible for managing COVID-19 have emphasized the negative psychological effects of being in at-risk situations. To identify COVID-19 related barriers and facilitators for ophthalmic practice among Eye Care Practitioners in Al Buraimi, Oman. Eye Health Centers, Al Buraimi, Sultanate of Oman. This qual...

Working memory is a component of the human memory system in which all thought processes take place during an activity. Asking participants to verbalize their thoughts (think-aloud method) is a well-established technique in cognitive psychology and computer science for obtaining access to mental processes in order to investigate in-performance cogni...

Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate the barriers and perceptions towards spectacle wear among the student population of the University of Buraimi, Oman. Methods: A descriptive, questionnaire-based and cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2017 and May 2018. Ophthalmic examination and a standard spectacle prescription protocol...

Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of moderate and severe visual impairment across the globe. An important driver for early detection and management of refractive errors among children is appropriate parental awareness. This study aims to understand the awareness and perception among parents of children with refractive errors utilizi...

Background: Although challenging, writing prescriptions is an essential practical competency of medical graduates. This process is transformative as it reflects medical students’ ways of thinking and practising. A conceptual framework, similar to “way of thinking and practising”, known as ‘threshold concepts’ can help students to establish meaning...

Purpose: Pharmacology is widely experienced as a difficult to learn discipline. Unfamiliarity with its technical and medical terms, and how pharmacological principles transfer from theory to practice, is especially troublesome. This known state of affairs is evenmore compounded where English is not the first language of students in question. This s...

Learning in any context involves acquisition, storage and utilization of information by the human memory system. Teaching and learning in health professions is a complex process since it demands learners interact with a number of novel information and concepts and critically analyze them to make important clinical decisions. Therefore, it is impera...

Background: Retinoscopy is one of the important clinical skills an undergraduate optometry student should learn. It requires time, dedication, practice and support to attain an acceptable level of proficiency. We report the process of implementing Cooperative Learning (CL) for Retinoscopy skill training in an Optometry program, focusing the prepara...

Aim: To evaluate awareness, knowledge, and perception towards eye donation among the literate working population. Methodology: A new questionnaire on eye donation was developed from existing literature and face validation was performed among subject experts. Repeatability of the questionnaire was performed among 30 subjects. A total of 23 questions...

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Concept animation - the graphical array of pictures accompanied by text as speech balloons, can help to improve learner’s comprehension from basic to advanced levels concepts. When the process of concept comprehension is not facilitated, the learner may come in a transitional state o...

This Oral Presentation was made as part of the parallel sessions at OTTAWA-ICME conferences 2018 held in Abu-Dhabi, UAE ICME - Theme (of the this presentation) was Student Characteristcs & Learning Strategy 1 and Learning on Assessment

Abstract Objective: The study was undertaken to establish student perception and interest in a graphic medicine approach to the teaching and learning of pharmacology in optometry. Methods: The Graphic-oriented approach to the teaching of pharmacology was introduced periodically to undergraduate students of optometry in semesters five and six. The...

This six-year retrospective longitudinal study was conducted to examine the changes in the pattern of prescribing soft contact lenses in an optometry centre located in a University in South India. Details regarding the type of lenses, lens material, wearing pattern and the clinical diagnoses were analyzed from January 2006 to December 2011. A total...

Purpose: To understand the pattern of prescribing contact lenses (CL) among Indian practitioners. Methods: Survey forms were sent to 257 practitioners across the country to collect information about their last 10 CL fits, location and type of practice, years of experience and educational qualification. A logistic regression analysis was performe...

To investigate the rate of compliance with the soft contact lens care and maintenance procedures with a focus on contact lens wearing habits, cleaning and disinfecting procedures, and maintenance of lens care accessories in a group of young, university-based contact lens wearers Two hundred and sixteen young soft contact lens wearers with an age ra...

Smoking, both active and passive, creates a plethora of health-related problems, which primarily affect the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. There is very little evidence on the effects of tobacco smoke on the eye, especially regarding anterior ocular surface related pathology. This study was undertaken to determine the effects of smoking on...

Acuity charts that follow the principle of logarithmic size progression (logMAR charts) are considered to be the gold standard for the assessment of distant vision. But it is not well accepted for routine eye examinations due to increased testing time and the complexity of scoring. This study was designed to check whether a modified logMAR chart wi...

To determine the efficacy of a remotely operated computer-based logarithmic (logMAR) visual acuity chart. Visual acuity was tested using a laptop or computer-based logMAR chart (COMPlog) for all subjects by two different methods. The methods differed by the physical presence and absence (remote) of an optometrist and in the mode of instructions pro...