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Clinical assessment performance of graduate- and undergraduate-entry medical students.
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PMID:  22288998     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Background: Recent evidence suggests that graduate-entry medical students may have a marginal academic performance advantage over undergraduate entrants in a pre-clinical curriculum in both bioscience knowledge and clinical skills assessments. It is unclear whether this advantage is maintained in the clinical phase of medical training. Aim: The study aimed to compare graduate and undergraduate entrants undertaking an identical clinical curriculum on assessments undertaken during clinical training in the medical course. Methods: Clinical assessment results for four cohorts of medical students (n = 713) were compared at the beginning and at the end of clinical training for graduate and undergraduate entrants. Results: Results showed that graduate- and undergraduate-entry medical students performed similarly on clinical assessments. Female students performed consistently better than male students. Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that any academic performance advantage held by graduate-entry medical students is limited to the early years of the medical course, and is not evident during clinical training in the later years of the course.
Authors:
Katharine J Reid; Agnes E Dodds; Geoffrey J McColl
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Medical teacher     Volume:  34     ISSN:  1466-187X     ISO Abbreviation:  Med Teach     Publication Date:  2012  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-01-31     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7909593     Medline TA:  Med Teach     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  168-71     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne , Australia.
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