@article{Dr. Mukkadan Joseph Kurien_Danasegaran M_Soumya Mishra_Prabha V_Archana Rajagopalan_Kumar Sai Sailesh_Jinu Kochakkan Varghese_Udaya Kumar Reddy_2016, title={Physiology Seminars: Perceptions of Undergraduate allied health sciences students }, volume={3}, url={https://apjhs.com/index.php/apjhs/article/view/645}, DOI={10.21276/apjhs.2016.3.2.21}, abstractNote={<p>Background: Seminar is reported as an effective method for improving communication skills and facilitates learning process. Seminars enable active participation, peer interaction, questioning the minds of students, handling of debatable issues, effective presentational skills, presenting opinions. Aims and objectives: The present study was aimed to observe the effectiveness of seminar in allied health science students through their own perceptions. Materials and Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted in 60 male and female first year undergraduate allied health science students, after obtaining voluntary, written informed consent after explaining the need of the study and ensuring confidentiality. Results: Majority of the students expressed positive opinion about seminar. Conclusion: We recommend that seminar could be implemented successfully as a learning process. We also recommend further studies with involvement of multiple centers to support the implementation of seminars in the curriculum, to increase the academic performance of students in Physiology.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences}, author={Dr. Mukkadan Joseph Kurien and Danasegaran M and Soumya Mishra and Prabha V and Archana Rajagopalan and Kumar Sai Sailesh and Jinu Kochakkan Varghese and Udaya Kumar Reddy}, year={2016}, month={Jun.}, pages={113–115} }