Background
Resilience is the capacity to recover and to cope successfully with everyday challenges. Resilience has intrinsic and extrinsic components and an effort has been made to study the intrinsic component and its association with socio-demographic factors, among the entry level students of the Integrated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course.
 
Method
The present study was conducted in Gulf Medical University, using a self-administered questionnaire comprising of two parts, distributed to all the students who consented to participate. The first part contained questions on socio-demographic details while the second part contained questions on the intrinsic and extrinsic components of resilience of the students.  The data collected was analysed using Predictive Analytic Software (PASW) 18.0 using frequency, mean, SD and median.
 
Results
Among the 58 students who participated, 24 (41.4%) were males and 34 (58.6%) females, of which 70.7% were < 20 years and 29.3% > 20 years. The mean score for the intrinsic component of resilience was 48.9 (SD, 5 and  range  35–60). The median scores showed no significant variation (p