Graduation Rates and Academic Performance in Mexican Medical Students: 25-Year Follow-Up at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• In Event: 56.082 - Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: 56.082-8 - Poster Session: Education and Assessment in the Professions

Abstract

This study explores longitudinal data collected during the last 25 years in the UNAM, the largest medical school in Mexico. The relationships among sex, high school GPA, academic performance, and graduation rates are explored. The analyses indicate that graduation rates after five years remained the same, and that after eight years have improved. Medical students have increased their high school and college GPA. No correlation between high school GPA and graduation rates was found. Students who passed all first-year courses were more likely to graduate in five years. More women than men study medicine. Women had higher high school GPAs, but in college men performed slightly better. The findings have implications for strategic planning, academic performance and graduation rates improvement.

Authors

• Magda Campillo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Adrián Martínez-González, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Melchor Sanchez-Mendiola, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México