Comparison of co-curricular activities with academics record of medical students of AFMDC.
Co-curricular activities play an important role in making balanced personality among adults. Earlier, the term “Extra-Curricular Activity” was used by the people. Now the term “Extra” is not in use as it seems to be something “unnecessary”.Co-curricular activities (CCAs) are those activities and program that accompaniment the regular educational learning of the students in academic organizations. However these are not directly related with educational course, they are planned to help the students to attain a greater understanding of the syllabus, and helps to attain facilitate their various skill development tasks.
Material and methods: This study of analytical cross-sectional design was conducted in Aziz Fatima Medical and Dental College Faisalabad. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 24. All five years MBBS students were included in this study. After taking informed consent their final professional examination and participation in different official committees’ data was taken and analysed. Comparison between co-curricular and academic performance was done by using Fisher exact test.
Results: 543 MBBS students are enrolled in this study, out of which 535 were appear in final professional examination, 482 (90%) were passed and 53 (10%) failed their final professional examination. 221 students were enrolled in different committees, out of which 22 (9.95%) were in literary committee, 182 (82%) were in sports and 17 (7.69%) were in debating committee. Fisher exact test was applied and test was highly significant as p= 0.001.
Conclusion: It is concluded from our study that co-curricular activities is positively associated with academic performance of the students.
Key words: Co-Curricular activities, academic record, educational performance
