Medical School Clinical Knowledge Exam Scores, Not Demographic or Other Factors, Associated With Residency In-Training Exam Performance.
Mil Med
; 188(1-2): e388-e391, 2023 01 05.
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| ID: mdl-34363086
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The anesthesiology in-training exam (ITE) is a 200-item multiple-choice assessment completed annually by physician residents. Because all matriculated U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) anesthesiology residents are "hired" by the DoD after residency graduation, it is important to ensure that ITE performance, as a proxy for core competencies achievement, is maximized.METHODS:
Graduated resident program files from 2013 to 2020 were queried for age, sex, matriculant status (medical student vs. other), medical school (Uniformed Services University vs. other), military service (Army vs. Air Force), preresidency military service (yes vs. no), U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) score, and the American Board of Anesthesiologists ITE Score from the third clinical anesthesia year (CA-3 year).RESULTS:
For every 1-point increase in USMLE Step 2 CK true z-score, the CA-3 ITE z-score increased by 0.59 points. Age was not associated with CA-3 ITE z-score in any dataset regression. Categorical covariates of sex, application status, medical school, service, and preresidency military service were not significantly associated with CA-3 ITE z-score (all P >.05), as shown by estimated adjusted marginal means. The estimated adjusted grand mean of CA-3 ITE z-scores was 0.48 (standard error ± 0.14).CONCLUSION:
Resident physicians enter residency with varying degrees of past academic success, and it is important to develop early strategies to support them in acquiring the requisite knowledge base.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Sucesso Acadêmico
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Internato e Residência
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article