Background: High-Impact Practices (HIPs) are educational practices that have been shown to increase rates of student retention, engagement, and persistence to graduation which help them to become high achievers and lifelong learners. Universities strongly encourage faculty members to incorporate one or more of these HIPs in order to improve active learning among students. Students are met with a variety of experiences that are not entirely of their choice, including expectations for academic performance, interactions with faculty, staff, and peers, and extracurricular activities that may or may not match their expectations and skills. Higher retention and high-grade achievement rates are attributed to HIPs. The mechanism by which HIPs improve retention is poorly understood. Aims and objectives: There are numerous analyses of the objectives particular to undergraduate medical education in recent years. There have been proposed three major target categories. Undergraduate medical education has been positioned within a liberal education framework, where the main objective is to equip students with the critical thinking abilities, broad general education, and subject-specific knowledge they will need to be able to effectively problem-solve, adapt to new roles, and apply public health thinking and practices to a variety of situations. We tried to incorporate HIPs in a medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, by giving them topics that can be used to create public awareness about the selected objectives which may help the community greatly. Methodology: Students were asked to make posters or videos on the topics and were asked to write reflections about their experience and give feedback to the coordinators for improvements and to make these HIPs better so that they can be included uniformly in the other courses as well. Results and conclusions: Based on results from a random sample of undergraduate students, we draw the conclusion that HIPs are correlated with engagement, which is the alignment of the student's critical thinking and ability to work in effective teams, group projects, learning communities, and sequence courses. HIPs have an impact on involvement among students across the world. HIPs are effective to the extent that they engage pupils, encouraging a greater commitment, which is one way to understand their success.

Background: Various studies among students from different medical universities have established that individual students' study habits, which are cultivated throughout their academic life, are a critical determining factor in their academic success. The present study aimed at evaluation of study habits among the high achieving undergraduate medical students at Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted among the among undergraduate medical students of Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia using a self-designed and pre-validated questionnaire with questions aimed at understanding the various types of study habits adopted by them. Results: Three hundred twenty-six students from the first to the sixth year of the undergraduate programme participated in the study.The survey results gave insight into the study habits that successful students consistently practised. A few of them, which have been established, previously, include healthy eating, sufficient sleep and consistent reading that has supplemented academic success. Conclusions The process of learning is complex and multifaceted. Hence, a single-pronged approach might not always be sufficient. To improve academic performance, students need help assessing the areas and habits that need to be changed to reduce stress, eliminate burnout and increase productivity. It has been suggested that training sessions be introduced in the early stages of the medical course to familiarize students with the necessary habits and skills.