Razi Journal of Medical Sciences

  Background: Students academic achievement have important role in their future success and lack of attention to basic concepts, followed by academic failure, will reduce the efficiency of students in today's society. Academic achievement is influenced by several factors. The purpose of this study is to predict the academic success through emotional intelligence and socio-demographic variables.

  Methods : In this descriptive-cross sectional study 114 first-year medical student of Tehran University of Medical Sciences participated in this research. They completed bar-on emotional intelligence questionnaire at the beginning of the academic year after that at the end of academic year their average and demographic variables (through expressing themselves) was collected.

  Results: Stepwise regression results showed that no significant relationship was found between components of emotional intelligence and academic achievement. Only significant relationship was seen between the portion and academic achievement (F_(2,101)=7.317 P<0.001).

  Conclusions: The results of this study showed that there was no significant relationship between the emotional intelligence and academic achievement. Meanwhile emotional intelligence is one of the requirements for the success of a physician in health care.As emotional intelligence has no place in the evaluation of current students, there should be fundamental changes in the method of evaluation. Also student admission must change until the effectiveness of portion becomes reasonable.