Perceptions and Satisfaction of Saudi Medical Students with Neurology Education: A National Exploratory Study

Abstract

Perceiving difficulty in learning neurology is not a recent issue. More than two decades ago, a British survey among medical students estimated that approximately half of medical students experience neurophobia at a given time during their education [3]. Furthermore, the study identified three main issues related to learning neurology: the necessity to have good knowledge of basic neurosciences, the quality of teaching, and the difficulty of carrying out neurological examinations [3]. Surprisingly, subsequent and recent studies all over the world (e.g., American [4], Canadian [5], Chinese [6], Indian [7], Irish [8], British [9,10], and Saudi studies [2,11]) had comparable findings concerning difficulties with neurology education.