Intelligence quotient analysis and its association with academic performance of medical students.

Background: Intelligence is the ability to see meaningful relationships between things that includes perceiving, knowing, reasoning and remembering. The study was done to know the duration of preparation, self study hours, academic performance and its association with IQ level of medical students, to state how to shorten the duration of completing MBBS degree. Methods: A cross sectional study done on 300 medical students using structured questionnaire derived from I Q test.com. Data collection and appropriate statistical test were applied considering p value ≤ 0.05 as significant. Results: Most of the medical students had near average intelligence (88.3%) , they undergone one to two years preparation for medical entrance exams and devoted much time (>6 hrs) in studies. 10% of the students had higher IQ, spare less time in their self study but were sincere in the classes. Conclusion: Students with near average IQ work hard in their studies and their academic performance was similar to students with higher IQ. So IQ can`t be made the basis for medical entrance; instead giving weight-age to secondary school results and limiting the number of attempts may shorten the time duration for entry and completion of MBBS degree.

A comparative study to find out emotional quotient in students of MGM Medical College, Indore MP, India.

Background: Emotional intelligence/Quotient (EI/EQ) is a concept including perception, expression and control of emotions, self-control and empathy, communication, conflict resolution process, conscience. Nowadays there is an increasing incident of patient complaints about doctor’s behaviour, care, interaction. This situation can easily be improved by increasing emotional intelligence. Aims & Objective: To assess emotional intelligence, to study the level of anger and correlating level of anger with EI and empathy in medical postgraduates. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was done on medical graduates & post graduates of various departments in the MGM Medical College & MY Hospital Indore using a pretested semi structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results: 53.3% of P.G. students, 43.3% of pre-final students and 58.3% 1st prof students adjust their behaviour according to whom they are interacting with. 43.3% P.G. Students and 48.3% of 1st prof students gets nervous sometimes while 51.7% of pre-final students don’t get nervous without any reason. 9.6% of P.G. students, 10.4% of Pre-final students and 10.9% of 1st prof students had poor social awareness. 48.3% don’t get their thoughts never get negative further, while 41.7% of pre-final and 46.7% of 1stprof students disagree of getting negative thoughts Conclusion: According to our study social awareness was found to be least in 1st prof students. P.G. students were found to have lowest self-awareness and lowest self-management.