Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the factors causing absenteeism among
undergraduate medical students from lectures in a medical college.
METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Aziz Fatimah Medical
& Dental College, Faisalabad, Pakistan during the month of July and August
2017. The participants were the medical students of the three batches (third
year, fourth year and final year) of the college. There were 308 students, with
more than 50% attendance in the last semester. These students were also
attending clinical classes. They were asked to fill the Likert’s Scale based
questionnaire. This study was done to find out the factors which influence the
students not to attend the lectures in medical college.
RESULTS: Out of 308 medical students in three batches, a total of 267
completed the questionnaire; the response rate was 86.6%. Mean age was
21.14±3.4 years. There were 105 (39.3%) male and 162 (60.6%) female
students. The two most common reasons for not attending the lectures were
preference of self-studying over attending lectures (n=123, 46%) and poor
teaching style by lecturers (n=128, 47.9%).
CONCLUSION: This study proved that the problem of absenteeism is
increasing nowadays in medical students. There are multiple factors of
absenteeism including bad construction of the lectures and preferring self-study
over taking lectures.
Noor Akbar Sial, Rifat Humayun, Farhat Humayun. (2018) EVALUATION OF FACTORS CAUSING ABSENTEEISM FROM LECTURES IN A MEDICAL COLLEGE, KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, Volume 10, Issue 3.
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