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Correlations of medical school performance and compositional variables |
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Part 2 |
PACES |
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| Mean pre-admission qualifications at A-levels or Highers |
0.779 p = 0.000085 |
0.773 p = 0.000011 |
0.704 p = 0.00076 |
| Interest in career in hospital medicine at application |
0.205 p = 0.401 |
0.196 p = 0.421 |
0.223 p = 0.358 |
| Interest in career in hospital medicine in final year |
0.510 p = 0.026 |
0.522 p = 0.022 |
0.500 p = 0.029 |
| Interest of teaching in general medicine |
0.588 p = 0.0081 |
0.568 p = 0.011 |
0.483 p = 0.036 |
| Difficulty of teaching in general medicine |
0.128 p = 0.603 |
0.143 p = 0.559 |
0.153 p = 0.532 |
| Usefulness of teaching in general medicine |
0.223 p = 0.358 |
0.234 p = 0.334 |
0.219 p = 0.369 |
| More time needed for teaching of general medicine |
0.023 p = 0.926 |
0.009 p = 0.972 |
-0.049 p = 0.842 |
| Percentage of graduates taking MRCP(UK) |
0.613 p = 0.005 |
0.575 p = 0.010 |
0.478 p = 0.038 |
| Pass rate at MRCGP, 1988–1991 |
0.601 p = 0.0065 |
0.611 p = 0.0054 |
0.532 p = 0.019 |
| Pass rate at MRCGP, 2003–2006 |
0.690 p = 0.0011 |
0.726 p = 0.0004 |
0.792 p = 0.00005 |
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Correlations at the medical school level (n = 19) between performance at Part 1, Part 2 and PACES and compositional variables describing the medical schools. Values in bold are significant with p < 0.05. | |||
McManus et al. BMC Medicine 2008 6:5 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-6-5 |
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