Table 1

Correlations of medical school performance and compositional variables


Part 1
Part 2
PACES

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

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