Performance of first-year health sciences students in a large, diverse, multidisciplinary, first-semester, physiology service module.

ABSTRACT: Health Science students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal perform better in their professional modules compared with their physiology modules. The pass rates of physiology service modules have steadily declined over the years. While a system is in place to identify "at-risk" students, it is only activated after the first semester. As a result, it is only from the second semester of their first year studies onward that at-risk students can be formally assisted. The challenge is thus to devise an appropriate strategy to identify struggling students earlier in the semester. Using questionnaires, students were asked about attendance, financing of their studies, and relevance of physiology. After the first class test, failing students were invited to complete a second questionnaire. In additio

SUBMITTER: Higgins-Opitz SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4056165 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature