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How Do Student Backgrounds and Feelings Impact Confidence After Big Changes in Egyptian Medical Schools?

/ Egypt /Sun Feb 09 2025
This: You're a medical student in Egypt. Recently, there were major changes to how your school teaches you medicine - classes, how you are graded, and your schedule. GPS helps the driver find the destination faster and safer. Think about it, do you feel confident about studying medicine and Pass Tests? Is it Still easy to learn with the changes? You might be thinking, You aren’t the only one who facing this situation. These kinds of changes in Egypt’s educational system because the country wanted to improve medical education across the board. Turns out, a lot of things can affect how confident students feel about their studies. We call that feeling "Academic self-efficacy, " also fix know as A. S. E. It's all the ways that a student's background and feelings impact their confidence in their studies. The way student's lifestyle can greatly impact confidence within educational studies. If a person's life style is good, proper diet and activities will help them to have a clear calm mind and good attitude. Many factors influence it, like where you live, your family and friends, and even how much you like studying and the school itself. But there might be some things that medical students can change to boost their confidence. Life style change can impact confidence in their studies. The changes in the Egyptian medical education required looking at these different lifestyles and feelings to see what kind of impact they have on students' confidence and success. Let's get back to the main idea: changes to the medical education system in Egypt were big and sudden. The big question was whether these changes affected how confident Egyptian medical students felt about their studies. We started looking into different lifestyle and feelings to help us figure that out. Our goal was to get to the bottom of how students' backgrounds and feelings Maybe one of the biggest factors in these changes was the suicide rate. Not a single suicide was reported to the new system and vice versa, no cases were reported to the old system. Factors such as such as academic performance and other feelings of students can contribute to the rate of suicide as well as the other way around, if the student does not do well or socially, or is mentally troubled it can affect the student committing suicide. Social, stress, depression , doubt, anxiety, and many other can have the same impact as well. Sometimes, it can feel like everything is against you,but don't give up,fight. It seems that teaching methods might not be the only thing that needs to be considered, but also the how the lifestyle of student plays a role in their performance. So, what did we find? Well, it turns out that these big changes in the educational system did have an impact on students' feelings of confidence and success. In the long term these factors are influenced by health mental, Physical resources and life style at the short run;sometimes, it is the small issues that a student can easily control. The small issues fixed, a student can then, provide motivation for the entire lifecycle to perform better. Remember, confidence isn’t something you’re born with – it’s something you build. It’s all about how you handle stress and what you do when things get tough. As you are getting to think about it right now, feel what you feel, people are in the same group, and confidence in self is meant to be build to help you in the future and provide you with a successful life.

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    Is there a hidden agenda behind the emphasis on academic self-efficacy, potentially benefiting only certain factions within the educational system?
    How can educational policies be designed to support both academic self-efficacy and the overall well-being of medical students, ensuring a holistic approach to education?
    How do the psychological factors, such as stress and anxiety, interact with academic self-efficacy, and what interventions can mitigate these negative effects?

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