How rural is rural? The relationship between rural background of medical students and their career location intentions

Multiple choice questions are nowadays used in competitive examination and formative assessment to assess the student's eligibility and certification.Item analysis is the process of collecting,summarizing and using information from students' responses to assess the quality of test items.Goal of the study was to identify the relationship between the item difficulty index and item discriminating index in medical student's assessment. 400 final year medical students from various medical colleges responded 200 items constructed for the study.The responses were assessed and analysed for item difficulty index and item discriminating power. Item difficulty index an item discriminating power were analysed by statical methods to identify correlation.The discriminating power of the items with difficulty index in 40%-50% was the highest. Summary and Conclusion:Items with good difficulty index in range of 30%-70% are good discriminator.

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The relationship between stress and attitudes toward leisure among first-year medical students

Academic Medicine ◽

10.1097/00001888-198508000-00004 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 60 (8) ◽

pp. 610-7

Author(s):

M L Folse ◽

D A DaRosa ◽

R Folse

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Medical Students ◽

The Relationship

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Gift-Giving in the Podiatric Medical Student–Patient Relationship

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association ◽

10.7547/14-160 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 106 (5) ◽

pp. 361-363

Author(s):

Daniel López López ◽

Paula Torreiro Pazo ◽

Marta E. Losa Iglesias ◽

Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo

Keyword(s):

Medical Student ◽

Medical Students ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Clinical Case ◽

Ethical Concern ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Gift Giving ◽

The Relationship

We sought to explore the relationship between the podiatric medical student and the patient as it relates to the act of gift-giving as a sign of gratefulness for the services provided. This article presents the clinical case of a man who visited a podiatric medical student because of pain in his feet and subsequently presented the student with several gifts. Philanthropy, empathy, a positive attitude, treatment instructions, and the time devoted to the patient are some of the reasons why patients offer gifts to podiatric medical students. The relationship between the podiatric medical student and the patient and the act of gift-giving by patients are of ethical concern.

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The Relationship between Types of Hair Coloring with Hair Damages and Scalp Problems in Medical Students of University Sumatera Utara, Indonesia

International Archives of Medicine ◽

10.3823/1940 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Nelva Karmila Jusuf ◽

Yujinee Devi A/P Subramaniam

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

The Relationship

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THE RELATIONSHIP between COURSE MANAGEMENT and EXAMINATION ATTRITION RATES among UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS at the UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA

International Journal of African Higher Education ◽

10.6017/ijahe.v7i1.11959 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Harrison Daka ◽

Sekelani S. Banda ◽

Charles M. Namafe

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Academic Staff ◽

Comparative Method ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Course Management ◽

Undergraduate Medical Students ◽

Attrition Rates ◽

Training Programmes ◽

The University ◽

The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between course management and examination attrition rates among undergraduate medical students at the University of Zambia, School of Medicine between the years 2008 to 2016. An explanatory sequential research design was used for data collection. Data were captured using an evaluation survey instrument, students’ Focus Group Discussion schedule and an interview schedule for key informants. Quantitative data from the first set were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics while qualitative data from the second set were analysed using constant comparative method. The findings indicate that there was significant statistical difference in the course workloads in all programmes (p = 0.000, F = 4, 596, d f = 8.53). The course loads were heavy, had little time allocated to them. Course concepts were not taught in depth and led to students’ perceptions that the courses were difficult. As such, there is urgent need to revise or review course contents (i. e. curricular) of several programmes to be in accordance with the time allocated to them and that the Department of Medical Education and Development (DMED) should consider organizing specific pedagogical training programmes for existing and newly employed academic staff.

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Relationship between Self Concepts and Students' Academic Achievements in Selected Medical Colleges

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education ◽

10.3329/bjme.v2i1.18131 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 10-13

Author(s):

Md Humayun Kabir Talukder ◽

Shahana Parvin

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Medical Students ◽

High Achievers ◽

Self Concept ◽

Dominant Dimension ◽

Achievement Data ◽

Significant Difference ◽

The Relationship ◽

Pearson Correlations ◽

Medical Colleges

This cross - sectional descriptive study was conducted to explore the relationship of medical students' self-concept with their academic achievement. The study population was preclinical second year medical students. Study was carried out at one government and one non-government medical colleges in Dhaka. Sample size was 254 and sampling technique was purposive. The three dimensions of self concept: personal, family and social self-concept of medical students were assessed through 45- items questionnaire, which was answered on a five-point Likert scale. Data was collected by self administered structured questionnaire with Bengali version. Academic achievement data were measured by two term examinations marks of three subjects (Anatomy, Physiology & Biochemistry) based on written and oral examinations. Simple statistical tests were used to analyze the dominant dimension of student's self-concept. Inferential statistic such as ttest was used to analyze the difference between the self-concept and gender. Pearson correlations were used analyze the relationship between self-concept of students with their academic achievement. The participant's age ranged from 17 - 23 years with a mean of 19.8 and a standard deviation of 0.93. Among the respondents 47% were male and 53% were females. In term-I and term-II exams majority (66.9% and 66.1%) student were high achievers. The research finding showed that the dominant dimension of self concept was family self-concept (mean value was 53.73). Beside that, t-test analysis showed that there was significant difference between dimension of self-concept of students according to gender (p= 0.03, p= 0.02). Pearson correlations analysis showed that there was positive correlation between dimensions of self-concept with student's academic achievement. Study recommended to increase the student's self-concept in order to enhance their academic achievement. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjme.v2i1.18131 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education Vol.2(1) 2011: 10-13

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The Relationship between Sleeping Habits and Academic Performance among Medical Students in King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) ◽

10.21275/v5i5.nov163475 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (5) ◽

pp. 725-728

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Academic Performance ◽

Medical Students ◽

Sleeping Habits ◽

The Relationship

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Medical students’ attention in EFL class: roles of academic expectation stress and quality of sleep

Applied Linguistics Review ◽

10.1515/applirev-2021-0040 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Po-Chi Kao

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Research Model ◽

Quality Of Sleep ◽

Class A ◽

Medical University ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This study proposed and tested a conceptual model of academic expectation stress, sleep quality, and attention in EFL class. These variables did not receive much attention in previous studies but are considered important to medical students’ attention in EFL class. Data were collected from 496 medical students from a medical university in Taiwan. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique was used to examine the path effect in the research model. The results found that (1) higher academic expectation stress leads to higher attention in EFL class; (2) higher academic stress causes poorer sleep quality; (3) poorer sleep quality leads to lower attention in EFL class. A mediator was also identified in this model: sleep quality was found to partially mediate the relationship between academic expectation stress and attention in EFL class. The results may advance the current literature in medical education and applied linguistics by moving a step closer to understand these three variables.

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