Academic and socio-demographic factors influencing students’ performance in a new Saudi medical school

Salem, Raneem O.; Al-Mously, Najwa; Nabil, Nihal Mohamed; Al‐Zalabani, Abdulmohsen H.; Al-Dhawi, Abeer F; Al-Hamdan, Nasser

doi:10.3109/0142159x.2013.765551

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“…It is possible that marital experience – previous or current – motivated students to become more focused on their studies and improved and developed their time management skills (Salem et al . ). The recognition of the importance of future job security, perhaps made salient and impressed by marital experience, could be another motivating factor for these students to perform well scholastically.…”

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Perceptions matter: faculty caring, campus racial climate and academic performance

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Morin

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Perceptions matter: faculty caring, campus racial climate and academic performance

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Morin

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Despite the fact that, this finding has contravened the previous finding from a study in Saudi Arabia which reported higher academic performance among female and married students. Nonetheless, their study was conducted on medical students who were particularly in their preclinical year (Salem et al, 2013).…”

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Academic Performance of Pre-Clinical and Clinical Medical Students’ of East Coast Malaysian Peninsula: A Cross-Sectional and Descriptive Study That Stimulates Their Life

2017

J App Pharm Sci

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The education of medical students is held in high esteem in any nation due to the greater responsibility the profession is saddled with. Academic achievement of the students reflects their competency in their future profession. Although the knowledge, skill and desired attitude of the students improve as they gain experience, it is occasionally perceived that there is a dissimilarity in achievement because of diverse factors that impact on the academic performance of the students. The present study assesses various issues affecting the clinical and pre-clinical East Coast Malaysian medical students' academic performance. A self-reported questionnaire which assesses various factors potentially affecting the academic performances of medical students was administered to a total of 232 students of both clinical and pre-clinical years, and Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used in this study to analyze the data gathered. The study results found no significance difference in the GPA scores amongst gender and marital status across all the students, P>0.05. A statistically significant difference in GPA scores was found between the clinical and pre-clinical students P<0.001. However, on various factors affecting students' performance, only family income and favoring particular place while reading were discovered to have significant effects on the students' performance P < 0.05 while other factors did not vary between the groups P>0.05. The results from the current study might be beneficial to the students by allowing them to comprehend better the factors that can affect their academic performance.

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“…Studies have also been done in different parts of Saudi Arabia to assess the academic performance of undergraduate medical students (Al-Mulhim et al, 2012). Researchers have also looked into the sociodemographic factors influencing the student performance in a Saudi medical school (Salem et al, 2013). The difficulties faced by first year medical students were investigated in Umm Alqura University in Saudi Arabia (Almoallim et al, 2010).…”

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Factors influencing the academic performance of the female medical students in preclinical and clinical years

Shathele¹

2015

J. Med. Med. Sci

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The present study was undertaken to investigate the factors influencing the academic performance of the female medical students in the preclinical (2 nd and 3 rd year) and clinical years (4 th and 5 th years).A crosssectional study was carried out involving 100 female medical students (preclinical and clinical) in Northern Border University. A comprehensive questionnaire was used to evaluate the factors influencing their academic performance. A comparison was done between the factors influencing the academic performance of the preclinical and the clinical students. The strongest positive factors which influenced the academic performance of all the female medical students were the facility available for study, family support, and awareness about the medical course. Anxiety and stress and lack of sleep were the strong negative factors in both. There was significant difference between preclinical and clinical students regarding the time for self-study (p<0.05) and lack of sleep (p<0.05). Although the strongest positive factors and negative factors were similar in both preclinical and clinical students, there was variation in factors like English skills, personal time, family time and time for self-study. There was an increase in the English language skills, competition in studies and time for self-study in the clinical students when compared to the preclinical students, though the difference was not statistically significant.

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Academic and socio-demographic factors influencing students’ performance in a new Saudi medical school

Abstract: Factors such as age, gender, marital status, interest and motivation to enter medical school, learning resources, study time and the transportation used have been shown to significantly affect medical student's cumulative GPA as a whole batch as well as when they are tested for gender.

Cited by 42 publications

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Perceptions matter: faculty caring, campus racial climate and academic performance

Perceptions matter: faculty caring, campus racial climate and academic performance

Academic Performance of Pre-Clinical and Clinical Medical Students’ of East Coast Malaysian Peninsula: A Cross-Sectional and Descriptive Study That Stimulates Their Life

Factors influencing the academic performance of the female medical students in preclinical and clinical years

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