title: Drop-out and admission cancel rate among the students in a selected medical college.
abstract: A record based descriptive type of study was carried out among the under-graduate students of Mymensingh Medical College from the session 1966-67 to 2006-07. The academic years were divided into four decades and admission was followed into three categories such as retained, cancellation and drop-out. Total number of the students was 5892. Among them 3848(65.30%) were male and 2044(34.69%) were female. Out of 5892 students drop-out was 282(4.78%) and admission cancel was 304(5.15%). It was also found that drop-out in male was 232(6.02%) and in female was 50(2.44%) and admission cancel in male was 266(5.87%) and in female was 78(3.81%). The difference was found statistically significant (p<0.001). It was observed that gradually the drop-out and admission cancel rate is decreasing from the very beginning to till now. It was also observed that all drop-out and admission cancellation were in first & second year students. There was no continuation of their class roll numbers in third year registration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wahed
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Latif
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Mahamud
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nessa
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hossain
authors.forename: S Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Sultana
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hossain
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*