title: [Two-and-a-half year follow-up study of strategy factors in successful learning to predict academic achievements in medical education].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We performed a two-and-a-half year follow-up study of strategy factors in successful learning to predict academic achievements in medical education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Strategy factors in successful learning were identified using a content analysis of open-ended responses from 30 medical students who were ranked in the top 10 of their class. Core words were selected among their responses in each category and the frequency of the words were counted. Then, a factors survey was conducted among year 2 students, before the second semester. Finally, we performed an analysis to assess the association between the factors score and academic achievement for the same students 2.5 years later.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The core words were "planning and execution," "daily reviews" in the study schedule category; "focusing in class" and "taking notes" among class-related category; and "lecture notes," "previous exams or papers," and "textbooks" in the primary self-learning resources category. There were associations between the factors scores for study planning and execution, focusing in class, and taking notes and academic achievement, representing the second year second semester credit score, third year written exam scores and fourth year written and skill exam scores. Study planning was only one independent variable to predict fourth year summative written exam scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In a two-and-a-half year follow-up study, associations were founded between academic achievement and the factors scores for study planning and execution, focusing in class, and taking notes. Study planning as only one independent variable is useful for predicting fourth year summative written exam score.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Soon Ok
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine Clinic and Research Institute of Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Sang Yeoup
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Sunyong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baek
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Seok
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Sun Ju
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Im
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: So Jung
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Yune
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Sun Hee
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Beesung
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kam
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D004501:Education, Medical; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013337:Students, Medical
keywords: Achievement; Educational status; Medical education; Probability learning; Test taking skills