scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Author(s):  
Yolanda Ayu Yashinta ◽  
Budi Utomo ◽  
Fundhy Sinar Ikrar Prihatanto

Background: The influence of extracurricular activities on academic achievement has been studied in several studies. Some studies support that extracurricular activities can negatively impact academic achievement but other studies emphasize the positive effects of extracurricular activities. Extracurricular activities discussed in this study is the activity of organizing students as measured by organizational activities and committees. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of organizational activity measured by organizational activities and the committees that are followed by students on academic achievement.Method: Cross-sectional study, using questionnaires distributed to 221 medical students class of 2014 in medical faculty of Airlangga University.Results: This research was analyzed multivariate using R program by using logistic regression test to know the influence of independent variable to dependent variable. From the results of this study found that the organizational activity measured from the student organization and committee activities have no significant effect on academic achievement.Conclusion: organizational activities and committees play an important role in predicting the activity of organizing students, but from the results of this study found that the organizational activity measured from student organizations and committee activities have no significant effect on academic achievement.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Nunes Achar Fujii ◽  
Renata Kobayasi ◽  
Sylvia Claassen Enns ◽  
Patrícia Zen Tempski

Abstract Background: Extracurricular activities in medical education and are defined as any social, philanthropic, non-mandatory and unpaid activity. Some of these activities allow students to interact with the community providing care, learning and experiences for both. The purpose of this study is to describe the motivational aspects, the learnings and the barriers involved in the practice of these activities. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with medical students attending the first to the fifth year of medicine. We used qualitative and quantitative analyses to understand the motivating aspects, barriers and contributions involved in the practice of extracurricular activities. Results: Of the 586 students regularly enrolled in the medical course, 462 students accepted to participate in the research (Response rate: 78.43%), with 159 male students (34, 4%) and 303 female students (65.6%). Most of medical students (58,01%) participate in extracurricular activities with less participation during the first year (10,9%) and internship (35,4%). Among the motivating factors, students reported the desire to contribute to society, support their professional choice and learning. The students mentioned as learnings: integration of knowledge, life experiences, and development of communication, teamwork, leadership, responsibility, empathy and resilience. The barriers mentioned were the limited spots, the selection, the lack of support from those involved, personal, time management and possible losses in academic performance, physical and financial resources. Conclusion: Extracurricular activities allow medical students to develop skills and attitudes that are important to their future as a doctor. Students are motivated to participate in these activities to contribute to society, support their future professional choice and improve their learning.


2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (sup1) ◽  
pp. S66-S72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulmajeed Al-Drees ◽  
Hamza Abdulghani ◽  
Mohammad Irshad ◽  
Abdulsalam Ali Baqays ◽  
Abdulaziz Ali Al-Zhrani ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 1009-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Mauricio Oliveira de Almeida ◽  
Paulo Antônio Machado da Silva Lima ◽  
Rebecca Stabenow ◽  
Rhea Sylvia de Souza Mota ◽  
Antônio Luiz Boechat ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the prevalence of headache in medical students, and quantify the degree of disability through HIT-6 and MIDAS scale. Method The criteria established by International Headache Society were used and the HIT-6 and MIDAS, to asses disability. Results 140 medical students from UFAM were evaluated. 16.43% cases of migraine headache, 6.43% of probable migraine, and 23.57% of tension headaches were detected. 6.42% reported an absence of headache; and another 11.42% had secondary headache. According to the HIT-6 questionnaire, in 7.14% and 18.57% of the students, headaches were classified as having substantial to severe impact, respectively. Conclusion Migraine and probable migraine had higher scores than the other types of headache and, therefore, led to higher levels of disability. The present study did not find a significant correlation between student semester, age or extracurricular activities on the impact generated by headache.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. p28
Author(s):  
Chantacha Sitticharoon ◽  
Nipith Charoenngam ◽  
Issarawan Keadkraichaiwat ◽  
Pailin Maikaew ◽  
Vasu Lertsiripatarajit

This study aimed to determine factors influencing happiness in preclinical students especially in aspects of teaching and learning, students’ motivation, study habits, and academic achievement. This study was a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study. The questionnaire was validated and approved for clarity, readability, rational analysis, and comprehensiveness by the experts. Questionnaires were sent to all second and/or third-year medical students of the 2018 (328) and 2019 (329) classes, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand. Cronbach’s alpha values were 0.886. The data were analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Science version 18. From open-ended questions, the top 5 ranking factors increasing students’ happiness were teaching of instructors, content satisfaction, content understanding, free time, and handouts. Factors that had positive influences/associations with happiness of preclinical students were happiness in learning subjects taught in a particular year; satisfaction of content, study outcomes, materials, handouts, teaching motivating desire to learn, and applicability of content to medical profession; high motivation to study medicine, expected score, and the percentage of achievement of study targets; less amount of time spent on recorded-e-lecture study and internet for non-academic use; and low stress. Happiness of preclinical students was influenced by satisfaction in teaching and learning, their attitude, study habits, and academic achievement. Further studies on determining students’ happiness after improvement of teaching and learning environments, augmenting activities that enhance students’ motivation, and promoting good study habits among medical students, are required to prove whether enhancement of these factors could effectively increase students' happiness.


2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s908-s909
Author(s):  
E. Soliman ◽  
A. Fayed ◽  
E. Al Mussaed ◽  
H. Alawad ◽  
D. Elradi

BackgroundEmotional intelligence (EI) assessment has become an effective technique in exploring individual competencies. In the medical educational, there is a growing evidence for relation between academic achievement and emotional intelligence.ObjectiveTo examine relation between academic achievement and emotional intelligence among medical students.MethodA cross-sectional study of 189 female university students using paper-based Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version was conducted. BarOn EQ-i:YV consists of 7 sub-scores which estimate various domains of emotional intelligence along with general mood. The academic achievement was assessed via self-reported Grade Point Average (GPA).ResultThe average Intrapersonal score of participating students was 14.9 ± 3.4 and Interpersonal was 41.7 ± 4.9. The students scored 32.0 ± 5.0 in stress management scale and 31.9 ± 4 in adaptability. The lowest score achieved in the Emotional Inelegance scale was 32.5 whereas the top score was 71.3. The average general mood was 47.1 ± 6.4 and the positive impression ranged between 6 and 23 (17.3 ± 2.8). Positive week correlations were defined between the GPA and self-efficacy (r = 0.13) and Adaptability (r = 0.08) though these correlations were statistically insignificant (P > 0.05). Linear regression model showed that domains of Bar-On scale could explain up to 33% of changes in GPA (R2 = 0.33) with significant effect of self-efficacy, adaptability and general mood scores (P < 0.05).ConclusionMedical students showed high level of emotional intelligence which positively affect their academic achievement. Therefore, improving the emotional intelligence domains can help students improving their academic achievement.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishan Babu Pokhrel ◽  
Ramesh Khadayat ◽  
Pratikchya Tulachan

Abstract Background Medical students and residents were found to have suffered from depression, anxiety, and burnout in various studies. However, these entities have not been adequately explored in the context of Nepal. We proposed to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety, burnout, their associated factors, and identify their predictors in a sample of medical students and residents in a Nepalese medical school.Methods It was a cross-sectional study with 651 medical students and residents chosen at random between December 2018 and February 2019. The validated Nepali version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, and Medical Students' Stressor Questionnaire were used to assess depression, anxiety, burnout, and stressors respectively. We used univariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses to identify the correlation of predictor variables with depression, anxiety, and burnout.Results The overall prevalence of burnout (48.8%; 95% CI 44.9-52.7) and anxiety (45.3%; 95% CI 41.4-49.2) was more than that of depression (31%; 95% CI 27.5-34.7). Burnout and depression were more prevalent in residents than in medical students (64.5% and 33.7% versus 37.6% and 29.1% respectively). Whereas, medical students were found more anxious than residents (46.3% versus 43.96%). Academic related stressors caused high-grade stress to participants. Multivariable model for depression significantly showed anxiety and personal burnout as risk enhancing correlates; satisfaction with academic performance as a protective correlate. Similarly, the multivariate model for anxiety significantly identified female gender, depression, personal burnout, patient-related burnout, teaching and learning related stressors, and past history of mental illness as risk enhancing correlates; being satisfied with academic performance, getting adequate sleep, being an intern or a resident and less frequent involvement in extracurricular activities as protective correlates. The logistic model for burnout significantly showed depression, anxiety, being a first-year resident, drive and desire related stressors and a rare/never involvement in extracurricular activities as positive predictors.Conclusions A high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and burnout was seen among medical students and residents. Most of them were stressed with academic-related factors. A strong correlation between teaching and learning-related stressors with anxiety may be a call for an efficient and more student-friendly curriculum.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Rami Shrestha ◽  
Nirmala Shrestha ◽  
Sapana Koju ◽  
Ratna Keshari Tako

Introduction: Recent studies in last few decades are revealing that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) alone is not a reliable factor of students’ academic achievement. It has been claimed that only 20% of a person’s success can be attributed to IQ and rest 80% to Emotional Quotient. Since, many researchers had claimed the influence of emotional intelligence on academic performance; the aims of this study were to find out the level of emotional intelligence and its relation with academic performance among Nepali undergraduate students. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in 280 medical students (120 male, 160 female). The data of this research was obtained through the use of a questionnaire which elicits information about their Emotional Intelligence level and academic performance. The obtained data was analyzed by SPSS. The degree of relationship between marks obtained and emotional intelligence were established by Correlation coefficient and Fischer exact test. The level of significance was set at p-value less than 0.05. Results: The mean level of emotional intelligence was high (5.055±0.798) among Nepalese medical students. The respondents were reported to have high level of emotional intelligence with (5.544±0.929) for Self- awareness, (5.035±1.01) for Social awareness, (5.394±1.11) for Social skill and moderate level of emotional intelligence (4.24±1.37) for Self-management. Conclusion: There was a positive and strong relationship between the respondents’ overall emotional intelligence and their academic achievement which means that the higher their level of emotional intelligence, the better they perform academically.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shimaa R. Abdelmohsen ◽  
Zenat A. Khired ◽  
Angham Soliman El-Ma'doul ◽  
Ayah M. Barakat ◽  
Zeinab A. Kasemy

Abstract Objectives The purpose of this study was to explore the domains of emotional intelligence among medical students and ascertain its relationship to academic achievement. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 2340 undergraduate medical students from different Egyptian and Saudi Arabian universities using a semi-structured online abstract including two parts: Socio-demographic data and emotional intelligence questionnaire. Results The study was conducted on 2340 medical students aged (21.5 ± 1.9, range = 17–24 years) from two countries, Saudi Arabia (28.8%) and Egypt (71.2%). Females represented 68.4%. Academic achievement was distributed as excellent 54.1%, very good (28%), good (14.5%) and accepted (3.4%). The total EI score reported that 63.9% of the students had strength while 35.9% needed attention. Managing emotion, motivating oneself and total EI score were significantly higher among Egyptian students in comparison to Saudi Arabia students (P < 0.001). Females showed significantly higher EI scores than males. Egyptian males showed significantly higher EI scores than Saudi Arabian males (P < 0.001). Self-awareness was significantly high in Saudi Arabian females while managing emotions was significantly high among Egyptian females (P < 0.01). Academic achievement showed that EI scores were significantly higher among very good and excellent achievement in comparison to good or accepted achievement except self-awareness which showed that those with accepted achievement had higher self-awareness than those with high achievement. Significant positive correlation was found between EI scores and academic achievement (P < 0.001) Conclusion Emotional intelligence domains relate significantly to academic achievements in medical students. Therefore, this study recommended the necessity of improving the students ‘emotional intelligence in the scientific and community environment with proper interventions strategies through developing program that enhances their academic achievement to play a pivotal role when transforming into business world and recently in academic study.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
KumarKrishna Anjana ◽  
VedalaveniChowdappa Suresh ◽  
Chandraprakash Poornima ◽  
Ipsita Debata

2016 ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Thi Loi Tran ◽  
Duc Lai Tran

Objectives: To investigate the 1st and 2nd year academic achievement (AA) and its associated factors among the first and second years medical students of the course 2012-2018 at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Hue UMP). Methods: Using a cross-sectional study. Four hundred and eighty students were interviewed using the self-developed questionnaire to track the students’ 1st and 2nd year AA, demographics, daily time use for learning and activities, and their appraisal about the curriculum. Data were analysized using STATA 10.0 and applying multiple linear regression analysis. Results: The mean of students’ GPA of the 1st year (6.95±0.90) was statistically higher than that of the 2nd year (6.83±0.92). The mean of activity achievement of the 1st year (81.40±4.10) was significantly lower than that of the 2nd year (83.96±4.13). Factors associated with 1st year AA included gender, 1st year activity achievement, National examination score upon admission into Hue UMP, National high school graduation examination result, self-study time, disappointment from the 1st year and disorientation after the 1st year. Factors associated with the 2nd year AA were age, 1st year AA, 2nd year activity achievement, time spent for non-academic internet use, time spent for participating in classroom management. Conclusion: Further consultation for students on learning methods and effective strategies for coping withadverse learning environment should be extended to improve students’ academic achievement. Lecturers should be more mindful of subject content and teaching methods to optimizeincrease students’ academic achievement. Key words: academic achievement, associated factors, medical students.


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