Question

Technological advancements in mass communication are amazing with ripple effects already seen in South Asian countries.Explain citing examples

Answer 1

The definition of medical professionalism poses a challenge to global medical educators. This is especially pronounced in settings where professionalism frameworks developed in the west are transferred into different cultures. Building upon our previous study across Western contexts, we examine Taiwanese and Sri Lankan medical students’ conceptualisations of professionalism in terms of what professionalism comprises (i.e. dimensions) and how it is linguistically framed (i.e. discourses).

Methods

A qualitative group interview study was undertaken comprising 26 group interviews with 135 participants from one Taiwanese (n = 64; Years 4–7) and one Sri Lankan medical school (n = 71; Years 2–5). Through thematic framework analysis we examined the data for explicit dimensions of professionalism. Through discourse analysis we identified how participants constructed professionalism linguistically (discourses).

Results

Thirteen common dimensions across Taiwanese and Sri Lankan talk were identified, with the dimensions (contextual, integration and internalised self) being identified only in Sri Lankan data. Professionalism as knowledge and patient‐centredness were dominant dimensions in Taiwan; in Sri Lanka, attributes of the individual and rules were dominant dimensions. Participants in both countries used four types of discourses previously identified in the literature. Individual and interpersonal discourses were dominant in Taiwanese talk; the collective discourse was dominant in Sri Lankan talk. Findings were compared with our previous data collected in Western.

Answer 2

Ripple effect is nothing but an increasing outward wave movement in water when an object is dropped in it. Like the ripple effect, new technologies in the mass communication made an outward ripple movement in every part of the world in the past two decades. Remote areas and geographical barrier never stopped them.

Newer advancements  in mass communications like internet, mobile phones, tablets, video portals for learning had made everything simple. Even learning made simple. Good things always have a great ability to spread like fire and the the new advancement in mass communication.