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Volume 12 Issue 4 ( October-December ) 2023

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Exploring The Time Management Skills Among First-Year Medical Undergraduates: An Early Sensitization
Dr. Reshu Tewari,Dr. Shikha Rawat,Manisha Hoon,Dr. Anurag Bajpai,Dr. Ashish Agarwal,Dr. Swati Tewari

Background: Arranging and regulating the time to improve productivity and efficacy is called as Time management. Time management skill (TMS) increases the productivity and efficiency that ultimately lead to a healthier life for us by making us more settled and systematized. Objective: To assess the time management skills of undergraduate medical students of a NCRIMS Medical College and Hospital, in Meerut. Methodology: This cross sectional study was conducted among 130 undergraduate medical students of a NCR Medical college and Hospital, tertiary healthcare institution in Meerut. The time management skill was assessed using a time management questionnaire (TMQ) which has 10 questions in 5 point Likert scales. The TMQ has 10 questions, each question has to be rated under a 5 point Likert scale and indicates as follows: 1 – never, 2 – rarely/infrequently, 3 – sometimes, 4 – often/frequently, and 5 – always. The higher score corresponds to better time management. Results: Out of all students, 80% chose code 4 (16.9%) and code 5 (63.8%), and this frequency was climbed slightly to 88% after post analysis using combination answer of codes According to the heat plot, the majority of students chose codes 1, 2, and 3 in the earlier analysis. However, after further investigation, it appears to have reverted to codes 4 and 5. Conclusion: Majority of the students possess poor to average time management skills. One of the reasons may be in medical colleges people didn’t organise workshop, awareness program or debate on such hot topic so in future, further study relating time management with academic performance may be conducted and counselling/workshops/task within deadline and poster presentation should be organized for students to improve their time management skills.

 
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