Academic performance of male in comparison with female undergraduate medical students in pharmacology examinations

Objective: to compare the academic performance of male and female medical students in pharmacology examinations. methods: the comparative study was conducted at rehman medical college,peshawar,pakistan,from march to august 2015. for evaluating the students' academic performance,male and female students of academic sessions 2013-14 and 2014-15 were divided into 4 groups. group 1: < 50% marks; group 2: 50-69% marks; group 3: 70-79% marks; and group 4: >80% marks. spss 20 was used for data analysis. results: of the 200 medical students enrolled,102(51%) were male and 98(41%) were female. there was no significant difference in the academic performance in terms of gender in multiple choice questions (p=0.811) and short essay questions (p=0.515).the effect of attendance was also insignificant (p=0.130). significant difference was found between the academic records of urban male and female students compared to rural students (p=0.038). boarder students' results were insignificantly different from those of day scholars (p=0.887). conclusion: there was no significant difference between the academic performance of male and female students. © 2017,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.