Procrastinación Académica en Estudiantes de Medicina

Abstract

Evaluate academic procrastination in medical students. Method. Non-experimental, observational, quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The academic procrastination scale proposed by Domínguez, Villegas and Centeno (2014) was applied to 707 fifth-year medical students from a public university, selected for convenience. The procrastination dimension refers to the postponement of academic activities necessary for learning and self-regulation is related to the active process that the student carries out to meet the academic objectives set. Outcome. Of the 707 students, 295 were men and 401 women, 11 participants did not respond to this item. 58.3% of men and 61.9% of women tend to procrastinate, however, they do not openly accept it, but 9.1% of men and 3.7% of women do procrastinate and refer it, that is, they postpone activities Academics such as: doing homework, jobs they don't like and reading. Conclusion. Procrastination in medical students is more frequent in men than in women.