Table 2

Correlations of medical school performance and Guardian scores.

Years data are mainly based on
Guardian scores
Part 1
Part 2
PACES

2005–2006
Overall score
0.578
p = 0.010
0.558
p = 0.013
0.398
p = 0.092

Teaching score (based on National Student Survey) (Note:N = 14)
0.218
p = 0.454
0.242
p = 0.405
0.262
p = 0.366

Feedback score (based on National Student Survey) (Note: N = 14)
-0.101
p = 0.731
-0.048
p = 0.871
0.088
p = 0.765

Spending per student
0.414
p = 0.078
0.363
p = 0.127
0.131
p = 0.594

Staff/student ratio
0.001
p = 0.998
-0.108
p = 0.941
-0.077
p = 0.755

Entry score (based on UCAS tariff scores)
0.603
p = 0.006
0.612
p = 0.005
0.572
p = 0.011
2003–2004
Overall score
0.540
p = 0.017
0.486
p = 0.035
0.308
p = 0.200

Staff score
0.118
p = 0.630
0.081
p = 0.741
0.035
p = 0.888

Spending per student
0.499
p = 0.030
0.445
p = 0.056
0.239
p = 0.325

Staff/student ratio
0.223
p = 0.358
0.191
p = 0.434
0.128
p = 0.601

Entry score (based on UCAS tariff scores)
0.561
p = 0.013
0.590
p = 0.008
0.581
p = 0.009

Correlations at the medical school level between performance at Part 1, Part 2 and PACES and the variables derived by the Guardian from HESA and other statistics (see the text). Values in bold are significant with p < 0.05. N = 19 for most variables, except for those based on the National Student Survey, which has N = 14 owing to either to low numbers of respondents or differences between UK regions.

McManus et al. BMC Medicine 2008 6:5   doi:10.1186/1741-7015-6-5