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Background: Academic achievement is considered as a key to judge one’s potentialities and capacities. Lowachievement may be related to poor self concept, lack of family involvement, damaging peer pressure, culturaldeprivation, study skill deficiency, emotional problems, physical illness, lack of academic motivation. Anatomyhas been considered a key element of medical education for centuries and has survived current challengingpedagogic test of time. The teaching hours of anatomy have been reduced but the traditional teaching predominatesand lacks integration and clinical correlate. As living and surface anatomy forms the bridge between clinicalpractice and gross anatomy; the reduced course hours compelled many medical institutes to upgrade thedevelopment of anatomical resources via new technological advancements and by inculcating living anatomysessions by peer examination, life models and imaging. Further evidence is needed to define which method ofanatomy teaching leads to the most effective clinicians and if the choice of method affects students. Peerphysical examination (PPE) was considered as one of the important and widely accepted teaching tool inconducting living and surface anatomy sessions. In the present study, PPE is used as a teaching tool to help lowachiever students to escalate their academic performance.Results: Two groups A and B are made of 25 each from 50 low achiever students. Five topics of living anatomywere taught with traditional method in group A and with PPE in group B. Then students were assessed byobjectively structured practical examination (OSPE) of both groups. There was statistically significant differencein scores of students in group A and group B.Conclusions: So we concluded that there is definitely an academic improvement in the low achiever students withthe use of PPE. But future studies are required to compare the findings presented here with those of other medicalcolleges. So that PPE can be included as a regular teaching tool to facilitate not only low achievers but all of thestudents for their academic enhancement and future goal of becoming competent and ideal clinician.
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Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between various personality traits and academic performance of undergraduate health science students. Materials & Methods: A total of 400 medical, dental, physiotherapy and nursing students participated in this study. The instrument was “Big Five Inventory Questionnaire”. The questionnaire was validated. The data was collected and analyzed using STATA software. Results: The findings of the study did not shows any correlation between all the personality traits (Openness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Neurotism). Conclusion: Personality traits does not influence academic performance.
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Objective. Recognizing the social influence, study habits and health factors affecting scholastic performances of adolescents and to compare these factors among the adolescents between two categories of school. Methods. A total of 1230 adolescents (13-18 yrs) were screened. Data was collected by personal interview, using the teenage screening questionnaire (Trivandrum). Results. A total 615 students from corporation and private schools were studied. 39.76% (489) were high achievers, 13.5% (166) were low achievers with p < 0.001. In the low achievers, 12.03% were from the corporation schools and 1.46% from private schools. The incidence of poor study habits and social factors were increased in low achievers of corporation schools. On multivariate analysis, the predictor variables for poor scholastic performance were adolescent having refractory error, not having help for study at home, not doing home work regularly, not solving question bank papers and reading only before examinations. Conclusion. It is feasible and worthwhile to identify the determinants of scholastic performance and plan intervention strategies at each school. The results highlight the importance of implementing newer strategies, focusing on strict study patterns and creating the conducive school and home environment for study, so as to achive better scholastic performances.