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Variables Affecting Medical Faculty Students’ Achievement: A Mersin University Sample

BACKGROUND: Training provided in medical faculties is mainly composed of two phases: preclinical and clinical. Preclinical period, or the first three years, consists of theoretical classes and practical implementations to develop vocational skills. In the clinical period, students are given applied...

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Autores principales: Ogenler, Oya, Selvi, Huseyin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24829774
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.14648
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description BACKGROUND: Training provided in medical faculties is mainly composed of two phases: preclinical and clinical. Preclinical period, or the first three years, consists of theoretical classes and practical implementations to develop vocational skills. In the clinical period, students are given applied courses. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine the role of demographic characteristics and medical students’ life habits on their academic achievement. PATIENTS AND METHODS: For this purpose, a 20-item survey form with two sections developed by the researchers was used. Students were also asked to identify the averages of committee exams as the academic achievement indicator. Participating students (n = 287) were from Mersin University Medical Faculty during 2012-2013 session. RESULTS: Totally, 60.3% of the students were males with an average age of 21.16 ± 1.39, and their general grade point average was 63.39 ± 9.08. Students in their second year (P = 0.000), who were females (P = 0.000), graduated from Anatolian Teachers High Schools (P = 0.002), financially well off (P = 0.026), stayed in state hostels (P = 0.032), did not smoke (P = 0.042) and regularly did sports (P = 0.016) were significantly more successful compared to others. CONCLUSIONS: Students’ socioeconomic resources and habits play roles on academic achievement. Solutions that incorporate economic support which can eliminate negative situations leading to inequality of opportunity among students would increase students' achievement.
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spelling pubmed-40054362014-05-14 Variables Affecting Medical Faculty Students’ Achievement: A Mersin University Sample Ogenler, Oya Selvi, Huseyin Iran Red Crescent Med J Research Article BACKGROUND: Training provided in medical faculties is mainly composed of two phases: preclinical and clinical. Preclinical period, or the first three years, consists of theoretical classes and practical implementations to develop vocational skills. In the clinical period, students are given applied courses. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine the role of demographic characteristics and medical students’ life habits on their academic achievement. PATIENTS AND METHODS: For this purpose, a 20-item survey form with two sections developed by the researchers was used. Students were also asked to identify the averages of committee exams as the academic achievement indicator. Participating students (n = 287) were from Mersin University Medical Faculty during 2012-2013 session. RESULTS: Totally, 60.3% of the students were males with an average age of 21.16 ± 1.39, and their general grade point average was 63.39 ± 9.08. Students in their second year (P = 0.000), who were females (P = 0.000), graduated from Anatolian Teachers High Schools (P = 0.002), financially well off (P = 0.026), stayed in state hostels (P = 0.032), did not smoke (P = 0.042) and regularly did sports (P = 0.016) were significantly more successful compared to others. CONCLUSIONS: Students’ socioeconomic resources and habits play roles on academic achievement. Solutions that incorporate economic support which can eliminate negative situations leading to inequality of opportunity among students would increase students' achievement. Kowsar 2014-03-05 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4005436/ /pubmed/24829774 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.14648 Text en Copyright © 2014, Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal; Published by Kowsar Corp. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort variables affecting medical faculty students’ achievement: a mersin university sample
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24829774
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.14648
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