Background: During the last decade, academic life at the medical school of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile has been thoroughly affected by a curricular reform process. Changes started in 1993 and have continued up until now. This reform did not have an experimental design to allow for a scientific evaluation of its effects. However, it seems interesting to study the evolution of indices of academic performance of our students during this period.
Aim: To evaluate the academic performance of medical students between 1989 and 1999.
Subjects And Methods: All undergraduate students enrolled between 1989 and 1999. Academic performance was evaluated by 1) failure to pass one or more courses, 2) delay to complete the third year of studies, 3) withdrawal from school and 4) medical school grades.
Results: All indices of academic performance changed during the period of study. Failure to pass, delay and withdrawal from school significantly decreased, whereas medical school grades improved, particularly in basic and pre-clinical subjects.
Conclusions: Academic performance of medical students improved consistently between 1989 and 1999. While specific causal relationships cannot be established, we believe that this improvement is likely related to the curricular reform. This reform included horizontal and vertical integration of academic contents, greater emphasis in problem-based learning and additional instances of evaluation such as the repetition exam.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Impact of sleep quality on academic achievements of undergraduate medical students: a cross-sectional study from Saudi Arabia.
BMC Med Educ
January 2025
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Sleep is an active process that affects human health and quality of life. Sleep is essential for learning and memory consolidation. Good sleep is required for good academic performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRelationship between motivational climate, anxiety and average mark in pre-service physical education teachers: a cross-sectional study based on structural equation modelling approach.
BMC Med Educ
January 2025
Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Background: Motivation is a variable that directly influences task orientation. Within the motivational sphere, the motivational climate determines whether a task is performed with an intrinsic or extrinsic.
Purpose: It has been observed that depending on motivational orientations, anxiety levels and task performance can be increased.
The ongoing impact of COVID-19 on the clinical education of Australian medical radiation science students.
J Med Radiat Sci
January 2025
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre, Heidelberg, Australia.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant and ongoing impact on health care, particularly for medical radiation science (MRS) professionals. There exist many studies that describe the negative effects of clinical placement restrictions and access to universities on the well-being of all health professional students during the pandemic. There also exists evidence of changes to MRS student teaching and impacts to students and academic clinical educators; however, there exists a paucity of research that investigates how changes have affected the performance of students within the clinical environment and entering the workforce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDataset of video game-based assessments in digital culture courses at Indoamerica University.
Data Brief
February 2025
Facultad de Educación, Universidad Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador.
This dataset contains evaluation results from video game-based assessments administered to first-level university students across six different academic programs at Universidad Indoamérica from October 2022 to August 2024. The data were collected using an adapted version of Pacman through the ClassTools.net platform, where traditional quiz questions were integrated into gameplay mechanics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDesign of INSPIRE: Evaluation of the effectiveness of practice facilitation on implementation of screening, brief interventions, referral to treatment and medication for unhealthy alcohol use identification and treatment in primary care.
Contemp Clin Trials Commun
February 2025
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Health Information Partnerships, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA.
Background: Unhealthy alcohol use is a leading cause of preventable mortality and a risk factor for an array of social and health problems. The Intervention in Small primary care Practices to Implement Reduction in unhealthy alcohol use (INSPIRE) study is part of a nationwide campaign to improve the identification and treatment of patients engaging in unhealthy alcohol use.
Methods: We conducted a single arm, pragmatic study consisting of seventeen primary care practices in the Chicago metropolitan area, Wisconsin, and California across two waves with a 6-month latent period, a 12-month intervention period, followed by a 6-month sustainability period.
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!