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[Academic performance in first year medical students: an explanatory multivariate model]
María Esther Urrutia Aguilar1, Silvia Ortiz León2, Claudia Fouilloux Morales2
1Departamento de Apoyos Académicos, Secretaría General, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM.
Introduction:
Current education is focused in intellectual, affective, and ethical aspects, thus acknowledging their significance in students´ metacognition. Nowadays, it is known that an adequate and motivating environment together with a positive attitude towards studies is fundamental to induce learning. Medical students are under multiple stressful, academic, personal, and vocational situations.
Objective:
To identify psychosocial, vocational, and academic variables of 2010-2011 first year medical students at UNAM that may help predict their academic performance.
Material And Methods:
Academic surveys of psychological and vocational factors were applied; an academic follow-up was carried out to obtain a multivariate model. The data were analyzed considering descriptive, comparative, correlative, and predictive statistics.
Results:
The main variables that affect students´ academic performance are related to previous knowledge and to psychological variables.
Conclusions:
The results show the significance of implementing institutional programs to support students throughout their college adaptation.
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