El rendimiento académico de estudiantes de Odontología en la asignatura de Morfología como predictor del tiempo real de titulación y rendimiento académico en asignaturas de alto crédito

Grob, Melisa, Orsini, Cesar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5226-3625, Becerra, Daniela, Sabag, Natividad and Rojas, María Paz (2020) El rendimiento académico de estudiantes de Odontología en la asignatura de Morfología como predictor del tiempo real de titulación y rendimiento académico en asignaturas de alto crédito. International Journal of Morphology, 38 (5). pp. 1508-1512. ISSN 0717-9367

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Abstract

The relevance of basic sciences as predictors of students’ academic performance has great impact in healthcare education. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the predictive role of dental students’ academic performance in the subject of Morphology on high credit subjects in the preclinical and clinical phase, and on real time of graduation. A retrospective correlational study was conducted with 672 dental students (2002 to 2012) at the Universidad de los Andes, Chile. The variables studied were sex, year of admission and graduation, and academic performance in the subjects of Morphology (first year), Preclinics (third year), and Integral Adult Clinics of fourth and fifth year. Data analysis were conducted by means of Pearson’s correlation tests and structural equation modeling. Morphology academic performance was significantly associated, and predicted the academic performance in Adult Preclinical (r=0.25 p<.01, b=0.250 p<.001), fourth-year Adult Clinic (r=0.20 p<.01, b=0.198 p<.001) and fifth-year Adult Clinic (r=0.14 p<.01, b=0.138 p<.001), and was negatively with real graduation time. The model analyzed explained a 68.5 % variance in real time of the graduation. The results of this study contribute to strengthening the available evidence in relation to the relevance of students’ performance in the subject of Morphology for their development and training throughout the dental curriculum, as well as justifying the timely identification and support for those students experiencing difficulties in this subject.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: actual graduation time,credit transfer system,dentistry,higher education,morphology,anatomy ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2702
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 16 May 2020 00:22
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 06:09
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75174
DOI: 10.4067/S0717-95022020000501508

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