title: Performance of men and women medical students at King Saud University, Riyadh: a 10-year retrospective study.
abstract: This study was carried out using the results of medical students at the College of Medicine at King Saud University, Riyadh between 1975 and 1985. The purpose of the study was to ascertain whether any correlation existed between school performance and college performance, whether results from males were different from results from females, and whether the semester system, in operation since 1981, produced different results from the annual system. Significant correlations were found between school Grade Point Average (GPA) results and college results, being highest for premedical courses and lowest for clinical courses. However, these correlations were too small to be of practical use. Men students were found to perform better at preclinical subjects whereas women had better results at clinical subjects. The overall performance on the semester system was significantly higher than that on the annual system.
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D012737:Sex Factors