Relationship Between Class Attendance, Sendup Exams and Professional Performance in Special Pathology for fourth year Medical Students

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the importance of regularity and its relationship with academic achievements in send ups and professional exams in subject of pathology in fourth year MBBS students.

Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional study conducted on 4th Year MBBS students of session 2018-19 and 2019-20 in Pathology department of Nawaz Sharif Medical College, Gujrat. One hundred and eighty four students were included in this study. Data was entered in SPSS 21 and presented in the form numbers and percentages. Repeated measure ANOVA was used to compare the mean percentage score of send-up, assessment and professional exam score. Correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between attendance, assessments and professional results of MBBS students. To compare the attendance, send-up, assessment and professional exam between both genders independent sample t test was used.

Results: There were 54(29.7%) male and 128(70.3%) females with ratio of 1: 2.4. There was significant difference in percentage score among send-up(58.1 ± 11.3), assessment(51.9 ± 11.4) and professional exam (69.8 ± 7.6). The highest marks were obtained in final professional exam followed by send-up and assessment marks. Results also showed that there exists a positive correlation between class attendance, send-up, assessment and professional examination. However, there was significant difference in send-up (female59.3 ± 10.1 and males 55.3 ± 13.5) and assessment (female 54.1 ± 8.7 and male 46.5 ± 14.7) percentage between male and female students. The performance of male students was less than that of female students during the send-up and assessment but there was no significant difference in professional exam between the two gender groups.

Conclusion: Our study shows that class attendance during teaching sessions has a direct impact on the examination results