Brazier H, Conroy R M
Mercer Library, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin.
Med Educ. 1996 Mar;30(2):142-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1996.tb00732.x.
Many factors play a part in determining the performance of students in examinations, but the extent to which students use library facilities does not appear to have been recently considered as a factor, in medicine or in any other academic subject. In this study, the number of books borrowed from the library by undergraduate medical students was used as a simple measure of library use, and significant differences in book-borrowing levels were found between students in different years of the medical course, students from different regions of the world, and men and women students. In the first year of the course, students who borrowed most also performed best in their end-of-year examinations, and this association was only partly explained by regional differences. No such association was found among final-year students, suggesting different study habits and different assessment criteria in the clinical years of the course.
许多因素在决定学生考试成绩方面都起作用，但学生利用图书馆设施的程度似乎最近在医学或任何其他学科中都未被视为一个因素。在本研究中，本科医学生从图书馆借阅书籍的数量被用作衡量图书馆利用情况的一个简单指标，结果发现医学课程不同年级的学生、来自世界不同地区的学生以及男女学生之间在借书水平上存在显著差异。在课程的第一年，借书最多的学生在年终考试中成绩也最好，这种关联仅部分可由地区差异来解释。在最后一年的学生中未发现这种关联，这表明在课程的临床阶段存在不同的学习习惯和不同的评估标准。
