The relationship between attendance and academic performance of undergraduate medical students during surgical clerkship.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current study aimed to evaluate the previously unexplored correlation between undergraduate medical students' attendance during their surgical clerkship and their academic performance. It also aimed to explore any difference in the attendance rate between male and female students and whether this difference, if present, affects the academic performance.

Methods

A retrospective descriptive cross-sectional study has been conducted on 331 undergraduate medical students during their surgical clerkships at the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (CMMS) at Arabian Gulf University (AGU), Bahrain from September 2018 to June 2020.

Results

There was a positive statistically significant correlation between students' attendance during surgical clerkship and ac

SUBMITTER: Al Shenawi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298040 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature