A survey of career choices were conducted for three batches of final year medical students at Universiti Sains Malaysia. A total of 241 students responded, giving a response rate of 76%, with 107 males (44.4%) and 134 females (55.6%). Surgery ranked highest among the male students while obstetrics and gynaecology ranked highest among female students. Internal medicine was the second choice for ...

In this study, researcher has tried out to know the status of altruism of students studying at senior secondary class on the basis of their gender. For this study the researcher has selected 200 students. The Altruism Scale prepared by Dr. S.N. Rai and Dr.Sanwat Singh (2004) has been used for the collection of data. The analysis techniques of SPSS-20 have been used by the researcher. The result...

Students choose information technology (IT) majors because of three interrelated attributes: personal values, academic reputation, and socio-economical influences. The study proposes that these views explain the gender gap between male and female students in IT majors. By empirically examining these different views through a field survey, our pilot study reveals that Thai female students have h...

The present investigation was conducted to see the effect of gender of head teachers on the academic success of the school students in Bangladesh. A total of 60 head teachers (male = 37, female = 23) and 3776 students (boys = 2142, girls = 1634) were randomly selected from the schools in a divisional town in Bangladesh to serve as sample. Academic success records of the students in their Primar...

Slater JA, Lujan HL, DiCarlo SE. Does gender influence learning style preferences of first-year medical students? Adv Physiol Educ 31: 336–342, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00010.2007.—Students have specific learning style preferences, and these preferences may be different between male and female students. Understanding a student’s learning style preference is an important consideration when design...

background: medical education and training can directly contribute to the development of psychological distress in medical students. this can lead to catastrophic consequences such as impaired academic performance, impaired competency, medical errors and attrition from medical school. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of psychological morbidity among iranian medical students. methods: t...

ôbjective: psychological status of university students has an important role in their academic performance. the present study was planned to evaluate the psychological view of new entrance students of shaheed sadoughi üniversity of medical sciences. methods: general health questionnaire (ghq-28) was used to collect data from 1689 students who visited the âdvisory and guidance çenter of the üniv...

background quality of life is a broad concept of health and is linked to physical health, psychological status, level of independence, social relationships, individual personal beliefs and environmental factors, complexly and has become important in recent years. in this context, evaluation of quality of life of students as future builders of society is essential. this study was done to determi...

background: studentship period is a time when most behavioral traits are being created and fixed; this is a special time when students may start smoking. thus in the present research, prevalence of smoking in university students in iran has been evaluated. materials and methods: having extensively explored iranian and international databases (sid, iranmedex, magiran, medlib,irandoc, pubmed, goo...