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Table 2 Correlation in the UCLMS Cohort study a,b,c

From: The Academic Backbone: longitudinal continuities in educational achievement from secondary school and medical school to MRCP(UK) and the specialist register in UK medical students and doctors

 

Overall performance at medical school (years 1 to 5)

Examination performance

BMS (years 1 and 2)

Clinical (years 3 to 5)

Written (years 1 to 5)

OSCE/practical (years 1 to 5)

Number of GCSEs

-0.043

-0.034

-0.045

-0.055

-0.027

P = 0.288

P = 0.422

P = 0.269

P = 0.177

P = 0.501

n = 605

n = 552

n = 604

n = 605

n = 605

Mean points per GCSE

0.262

0.156

0.260

0.263

0.247

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

n = 599

n = 548

n = 598

n = 599

n = 599

Mean points per GCSE (corrected for censoring)d

0.277 ± 0.040 (0.204 to 0.360)

0.165 ± 0.0410 (0.092 to 0.250)

0.267 ± 0.035 (0.204 to 0.342)

0.274 ± 0.038 (0.202 to 0.356)

0.264 ± 0.039 (0.189 to 0.333)

Total GCSE points

0.128

0.083

0.117

0.120

0.130

P = 0.002

P = 0.053

P = 0.004

P = 0.003

P = 0.002

n = 597

n = 546

n = 596

n = 597

n = 597

Number of A-levels

0.137

0.154

0.106

0.148

0.112

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.004

P <0.001

P = 0.004

n = 667

n = 570

n = 667

n = 667

n = 667

Mean A-level grade

0.311

0.286

0.266

0.339

0.279

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

n = 668

n = 570

n = 667

n = 667

n = 667

Total points for three best A-levels

0.301

0.282

0.257

0.331

0.272

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

n = 668

n = 571

n = 668

n = 668

n = 668

Total points for three best A-levels (corrected for censoring)d

0.412 ± 0.045 (0.318 to 0.506)

0.396 ± 0.041 (0.309 to 0.473)

0.342 ± 0.036 (0.260 to 0.404)

0.444 ± 0.039(0.368 to 0.511)

0.362 ± 0.036 (0.281 to 0.443)

MRCP(UK) Part 1 mark

0.709

0.610

0.685

0.733

0.646

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

n = 252

n = 204

n = 252

n = 252

n = 252

MRCP(UK) Part 2 mark

0.656

0.526

0.651

0.669

0.625

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

P <0.001

n = 122

n = 94

n = 252

n = 252

n = 252

MRCP(UK) PACES mark

0.448

0.220

0.525

0.399

0.442

P <0.001

P = 0.146

P <0.001

P = 0.002

P <0.001

n = 59

n = 45

n = 59

n = 59

n = 59

  1. Abbreviations: A-level, Advanced level; GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; MRCP(UK), Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom; OSCE, objective structured clinical examination; PACES, Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills; UCLMS, University College London Medical School.
  2. aPearson correlations of measures of performance at medical school with GCSEs, A-levels, and MRCP(UK).
  3. bFor n = 600, the standard error of a correlation of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, and 0.7 is about 0.040, 0.039, 0.037, 0.034, 0.031, 0.026, and 0.021, respectively.
  4. cValues significant at P<0.05 are shown in bold.
  5. dCorrelations corrected for right-censorship are shown as the mean estimate ± standard error (95% CI).