Medical students' compliance with simple administrative tasks and success in final examinations: retrospective cohort study

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1554

BMJ 2002;324:1554-1555 ( 29 June )

Papers

Medical students' compliance with simple administrative tasks and success in final examinations: retrospective cohort study

Neil Wright, lecturer in paediatrics, M S Tanner, professor of paediatrics.

Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield S10 2TH

Correspondence to: N Wright N.P.Wright@sheffield.ac.uk

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Medical students at the University of Sheffield are asked to provide a recent passport photograph at the start of their paediatricmodule. The pictures are collated, photocopied, and distributedto the wards, teachers, and hospitals within the paediatric programme.This makes identification easier and facilitates pastoral supportandassessment.

We studied whether students who were unable to comply with simple administrative tasks $---$ for example, supplying a photograph $---$ weremore likely to struggle and subsequently to fail their end ofyearexaminations.

Methods and results

All students received a written and a verbal request for a photograph at registration for the module. In the introductoryweek, verbal reminders were given twice, and a list of those whohad not supplied a photograph was displayed on a notice board,downstairs from the venue for the introductory course, on whichthe week's timetable is also posted. A photograph booth was situatedin the students' union building, . . . [Full text of this article]

CiteULike

Complore

Connotea

Del.icio.us Add to Digg

Digg

StumbleUpon Add to Technorati

Technorati What's this?

Relevant Article

Disorganised students fail exams
BMJ 2002 324: 0. [Full Text]

This article has been cited by other articles:

Kibble, J. (2007). Use of unsupervised online quizzes as formative assessment in a medical physiology course: effects of incentives on student participation and performance. Adv. Physiol. Educ. 31: 253-260 [Abstract] [Full text]
Chow, K. M., Szeto, C. C., Leung, C. B., Law, M. C., Kwan, B. C.-H., Li, P. K.-T. (2007). Adherence to peritoneal dialysis training schedule. Nephrol Dial Transplant 22: 545-551 [Abstract] [Full text]
Walsh, K. (2005). How to pass exams: evidence-based advice?. JRSM 98: 294-294 [Full text]

Rapid Responses:

Read all Rapid Responses

Reminiscence: John C Pennington
bmj.com, 28 Jun 2002 [Full text]
Poor attitude!: Melissa M Sayer
bmj.com, 28 Jun 2002 [Full text]
Flawed research or inadequate reporting: Ben S Cooper
bmj.com, 28 Jun 2002 [Full text]
Camera shy?: nicola brooker
bmj.com, 1 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Alternative explanation for not handing in a photograph: Druin Burch, et al.
bmj.com, 1 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Too much made of the evidence: Andrew J Ashworth
bmj.com, 2 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Failure to Validate Outcome Measures: Gordon P Lehany
bmj.com, 4 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Disorganised?- perhaps, but surely disinterested and disaffected is more likely?: david s sanders, et al.
bmj.com, 5 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Could non-compliance with photograph requirements have contributed to exam failure?: Scott Metcalfe
bmj.com, 25 Jul 2002 [Full text]
correction - poor attitude: Melissa M Sayer
bmj.com, 30 Jul 2002 [Full text]