Background: Study habits have been the most significant indicator of academic performance and play a unique role in students’ academic accomplishment. The study is aiming to determine the most common study habits of highly successful medical students and their relation to academic achievement.
Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted from September to December 2019 among medical students of both gender from six medical colleges in Saudi Arabia. The students answered the standardized questionnaires to study the different learning habits among medical students, including learning prioritization, knowledge retention strategies, motivation, daily hours of studying, study learning resources.
Results: Six hundred and seventy-five medical students enrolled themselves electively into the study. The results showed a significant correlation between study habits and students’ academic accomplishments. The top ten study habits of highly effective medical students are managing their time effectively, they get rid of interruptions (phone, family, friends) that disrupt their daily work, they use goal-setting to determine their most important activities, their daily study hours is ranging between 3 and 4 hours, they study alone for knowledge retention of medical information, learn from multiple sources and invest in technology with high efficiency, they contribute to the teaching of their peers, they study the main lecture slides with notes when no exam is coming, and they study lecture slides with notes and previous exam questions when preparing for upcoming exams; finally, they maintained motivation for self-gratification and fulfillment of their family dreams.
Conclusion: This study’s outcomes consolidate general study practices that can be credited to learning achievement and expand recognition to inspire less accomplished students by investigating and exploring factors that have enhanced and worked for many accomplished students.



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高效医学生的学习习惯

背景：学习习惯一直是衡量学业成绩的最重要指标，对学生的学业成就起着独特的作用。该研究旨在确定非常成功的医学生最常见的学习习惯及其与学业成就的关系。
方法：于 2019 年 9 月至 2019 年 12 月对来自沙特阿拉伯六所医学院的男女医学生进行了一项横断面观察研究。学生通过标准化问卷调查了解医学生的不同学习习惯，包括学习优先顺序、知识保留策略、学习动机、每日学习时间、学习资源。
结果：六百七十五名医学生选择参加了这项研究。结果表明，学习习惯与学生的学业成绩之间存在显着相关性。高效医学生的十大学习习惯是有效地管理他们的时间，他们摆脱干扰他们日常工作的干扰（电话、家人、朋友），他们使用目标设定来确定他们最重要的活动，他们的日常学习时间3 到 4 小时不等，他们独自学习以保留医学信息的知识，多源学习并高效投资技术，他们为同龄人的教学做出贡献，他们在没有考试时学习带笔记的主要演讲幻灯片来了，在准备即将到来的考试时，他们会学习带有笔记和以前考试问题的讲座幻灯片；最后，他们保持了自我满足和实现家庭梦想的动力。
结论：这项研究的结果巩固了一般的学习实践，这些实践可以归功于学习成绩，并通过调查和探索对许多有成就的学生来说增强和工作的因素来扩大认可，以激励成就欠佳的学生。