%0 Journal Article
%T Survey of personal and educational characters in unsuccess medical students in compare with success students
%A M. Khazaei
%A M. Rezaei
%A S. Khazaei
%J Koomesh
%D 2008
%I Semnan Univeristy of Medical Sciences
%X Introduction: Educational failure and dropping out are among the major problems of highereducation centers in the country. The present study was performed to compare personal andeducational characters of success and unsuccessful medical students in the medical school ofKermanshah.Materials and Methods: Information about personal and educational characters were collectedfrom all dropped out students, as unsuccessful group, and the students without dropping out and witha educational score more than 15, as control (success) group, during 2001 and 2005. Data analysis wascarried out using SPSS software. To compare mean quantitative factors in two groups, in-depended Ttest and F test were used, chi-square and fisher test used for qualitative factors, and Pierson correlationcoefficient calculated.Results: There was a significant difference between two successful and unsuccessful studentsgroups with regard to age, sex, diploma score, time gap between graduation from high school andstudying in university, parents education, marital status, students job, quota system and mean of allspecialized lesson in Konkor examination (p<0.05). No significant difference was observed in thetype of diploma and living in university accommodation between two groups.Conclusion: According to significant differences in many personal and educational charactersbetween two successful and unsuccessful student groups, it seems more attention and specialprogramming is necessary in this field .
%K Drop out
%K Medical students
%K Personal characters
%K Educational characters
%K Success
%K Unsuccessful.
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