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Resilience in medical students
Author(s) -
ElizondoOmaña Rodrigo Enrique,
GarcíaRodriguez María de los Angeles,
López Santos Guzmán
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.21.5.a214-b
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , psychology , environmental science , physics , thermodynamics
Resilience in medical students. Introduction. Few studies of resilience in an academic atmosphere exist and that associate it as a factor of success or failure in their academic performance. The objective of the present work is to determine resilience in regular and repeating students of medicine during the first and second semester and to correlate it with academic performance. Methods. For the study two different groups of students were included, the first group was integrated by first year regular students and the second group was formed by repeating (irregular) students. To both samples of the population a survey was applied to obtain the demographic characteristics and the Connor‐Davidson resilience scale which consists of 25 statements that can be graded from 0 to 4 on a Likert scale where zero corresponds to Never and 4 to Always . Results. The average of the score of the resilience scale for both groups was 80 ± 9, without a statistically significant difference. The average of the grades of human anatomy was 67 ± 15.0 for regular students; for the group of irregular students the average was 61 ± 12.0, there being a statistically significant difference between these groups. Conclusion. The resilience score is not predictive of academic success (passing a subject).