فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Academic performance of medical students is governed by various factors.Personality traits such as core self‑evaluation (CSE) and locus of control (LOC) are a few of themost important factors that could govern academic performance. The medium of communication isanother important factor, especially in a country with language diversity that could affect the academicperformance of the new medical entrants. The study aims to examine the effect of LOC, CSE score,and English Language proficiency on the academic performance of undergraduate medical students.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ninety undergraduate medical students of a premier centralgovernment medical institute of India has been recruited for the study after due ethical clearancefrom the Institutional Ethical Committee. A standard questionnaire for all the parameters to be studiedhad been filled by the participants. The academic performance has been judged on the basis of theprofessional examination’s marks score.RESULTS: The multiple regression analysis considering all the variables, the English languageproficiency appears to be the most important factor with R2 = 0.106 and P = 0.003. Most of theacademic performers have shown the dominance of internal LOC and moderately high CSE scoresthough not statistically significant.CONCLUSIONS: Language proficiency appears to be one of the most important determinants ofacademic performance in the medical entrants of Indian subcontinent. LOC and CSE could be animportant yardstick for academic performance, but that needs to be confirmed with another studywith a bigger data set.