OBJECTIVES To determine whether performance in any of the Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT) sections, most specifically the interpersonal understanding section, correlates with self-reported empathy levels in medical students. SETTING The study was conducted in University College Cork, Ireland. PARTICIPANTS 290 students participated in the study. Matching HPAT scores were available ...

ôbjective: üniversity students’ mental health affects not only their educational achievements, but also their professional future. the authors assessed the prevalence of suicidal ideation, depression, and aggression among students of three major universities in ïsfahan, ïran. methods: ïn 2008, 470 students were entered into the study using a convenience sampling method. the three measurement to...

background and purpose: decreased males’ motivation for entering universities has caused a low male/female ratio in different university majors. in 2005-2006 academic year, enrollment of female students in rafsanjan university of medical sciences reached 83.14%. this tremendous gender imbalance may lead to the development of a mono-sex system for health service providers and will.affect the soc...

BACKGROUND In the problem-based learning (PBL) medical curriculum at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, students construct concept maps related to each case they study in PBL tutorials. AIM To evaluate the interrater reliability and predictive validity of concept map scores using a structured assessment tool. METHODS We examined concept maps of the same cohort of students at the beginn...

The authors analyzed self-reported SAT scores and actual SAT scores for 285 college students. Students overestimated their actual SAT scores by an average of 23 points (SD = 65, d = .72), with 7% under-reporting, 53% reporting accurately, and 40% over-reporting, indicating a systematic bias towards over-reporting. The amount of over-reporting was greater for lower-scoring than higher-scoring st...

background :being informed of new methods of teaching and comparing their outcome help teachers use more effective and efficient methods in developing and implementing new training courses. the aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of epidemiology learning software on learning epidemiology courses.   methods : this quasi-experimental study included 101 nursingand midwifery students taki...

OBJECTIVES Australia has a growing number of graduate-entry medical courses. It is known that undergraduate medical students have high levels of psychological distress; however, little is known about graduate-entry medical students. We examined whether graduate-entry medical students had higher levels of psychological distress than the same-age general population. METHOD Psychological distres...

Objectives: This cross-sectional study examines the selfreported empathy levels of undergraduate students in five different health sciences disciplines before and after one year of training at the St Augustine Campus, University of the West Indies. Methods: Students enrolled into the schools of dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, veterinary medicine and nursing self administered the Jefferson Scale ...

Students negotiate the transition to secondary school in different ways. While some thrive on the opportunity, others are challenged. A prospective longitudinal design was used to determine the contribution of personal background and school contextual factors on academic competence (AC) and mental health functioning (MHF) of 266 students, 6-months before and after the transition to secondary sc...