Chronotype’s effect on academic achievement and absence from classrooms and clinical sessions among clinical phase medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Sawsan Mohammed Alblewi, Hyder Mirghani · 2025
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Sawsan Alblewi and Hyder Mirghani present a 2025 survey on whether being a morning person helps medical students learn. Chronotype, the body's preferred sleep timing, can clash with early lectures, and the mismatch is blamed for poor performance. Two hundred twenty-four clinical-phase students at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, reported their chronotype, absences, and grade averages.
Most students were neither larks nor owls, with evening types outnumbering morning types about three to one. Grades did not track chronotype directly. Absences did matter: skipping more classes and clinics went with lower grades, while older students earned higher marks. The authors close by calling for multi-center studies rather than blaming the body clock alone.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sawsan Mohammed Alblewi, Hyder Mirghani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |