Table 5 The number of international medical graduates that would be excluded (n = 21,329 doctors in total; 176 censured) under a variety of hypothetical restrictions on the number of attempts at the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test
Number of attempts at PLAB Part 2 permitted | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of allowable attempts at PLAB Part 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ∞ |
1 | 79: 9479 (120) | 61: 5917 (97) | 57: 5364 (94) | 56: 5274 (94) | 56: 5260 (94) |
2 | 60: 6820 (114) | 36: 2555 (71) | 28: 1875 (67) | 27: 1769 (66) | 27: 1752 (65) |
3 | 53: 6052 (114) | 24: 1531 (64) | 15: 799 (53) | 14: 683 (49) | 14: 666 (48) |
4 | 45: 5770 (128) | 13: 1152 (89) | 3: 400 (133) | 2: 278 (1139) | 2: 260 (130) |
∞ | 45: 5599 (124) | 12: 914 (76) | 1: 144 (144) | 0: 18 (NA) | 0: 0 (NA) |