Developing a Predictive Model to Assess Applicants to an Internal Medicine Residency

Neely, David; Feinglass, Joseph; Wallace, Warren H.

doi:10.4300/jgme-d-09-00044.1

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“…[23] (2) Also test-retest reliability was not assessed through a test-retest procedure, like administering the questionnaire to the participants again after a short period of time. However, this would probably not have changed the conclusions drawn.…”

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Improved clinical training of internal medicine students in hospital wards

Bjurman

2018

JHA

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Background: Clinical training (CT) in internal medicine wards is a compulsory part of the internal medicine courses in Sweden. Aim: To ask physicians responsible for different CT programs about the perceived quality of their programs and about ideas of improvement. Hypothesis: The average quality of local CT programs is generally perceived as low by responsible physicians. Methods: The author combined a literature review with own experiences to develop a novel quality assurance questionnaire aimed at improving the overall quality of CT. Eight geographically spread teaching hospitals were included in the study. Telephone interviews were conducted with responsible physicians. The interviews contained two parts: The questionnaire developed by the author containing twenty-seven 5-point rating scale questions on the quality of the local CT and open-ended questions about suggestions for improvement of the local teaching organization. Medians and percentage of maximum total score of the rating scale questions were calculated and improvements suggested by the participants were summarized. Results: The average quality of the CT programs as measured by the total score of the developed questionnaire was 51% (of maximum 100%) and varied between hospitals (range 33%-65%). Conclusions: There seem to be a large potential for improvements in different CT programs. Improved collaboration between universities and teaching hospitals and the agreement on national standards could potentially improve the quality of CT in order to guarantee a uniform clinical education of high quality.

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Improved clinical training of internal medicine students in hospital wards

Bjurman

2018

JHA

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“…Furthermore, the association between in-training examination scores and future performance as a physician is uncertain at best. 16,17 …”

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The Association Between Premedical Curricular and Admission Requirements and Medical School Performance and Residency Placement

George

Park

et al. 2016

Academic Medicine

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Purpose The curricular elements of undergraduate premedical education are the subject of an ongoing debate. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (AMS) matriculates students via the traditional premedical route (TPM) and an eight-year baccalaureate/MD program—the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME)—which provides students with a broad and liberal education. Using the juxtaposition of these two admission routes, the authors aimed to determine whether there is an association between highly distinct premedical curricular and admission requirements and medical school performance and residency placement. Method The cohorts studied included all of the PLME (n = 295) and TPM (n = 215) students who graduated from the AMS between 2010 and 2015. Outcome variables consisted of multiple measures of medical school performance, including standardized multiple-choice examination scores and honors grades, and residency placement. The authors employed unadjusted tests of averages and proportions (independent t tests and chi-squared tests) to compare variables. Results The TPM students attained marginally, but statistically significantly, higher average scores on standardized multiple-choice examinations than their PLME counterparts. The number of undergraduate premedical science courses completed by PLME students accounted for less than 4% of the variance in key metrics of medical school performance. The residency placement record of the PLME and TPM cohorts proved comparable. Conclusions These findings suggest that the association between medical school performance and residency placement and undergraduate premedical curricular and admission requirements is weak. Further study is needed to determine the optimal premedical preparation of students.

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“…The use of Step I scores for resident selection has been a matter of some debate in our residency selection committee, and based on the literature [1,2,[6][7][8]16] many residency programs place significant importance on this score.…”

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“…The perceived quality of the medical school attended was predictive of http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2015.05.007 0303-8467/© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. resident quality in one internal medicine study [16] but not another [9], and clerkship grades were predictive of resident quality in most studies [9,12,16,18], but not all [14].…”

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“…A passing score varies annually but is close to 190. Past studies from other specialties generally find no correlation between resident quality and scores on the USMLE Step I [11][12][13][14], with one study finding a negative association [15] and several a weakly positive association [16,17]. The perceived quality of the medical school attended was predictive of http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2015.05.007 0303-8467/© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.…”

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Predicting success: What medical student measures predict resident performance in neurology?

Burish

Fredericks

Engstrom

et al. 2015

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Developing a Predictive Model to Assess Applicants to an Internal Medicine Residency

Abstract: This data has allowed the creation of a weighted algorithm to rank applicants that uses 4 application factors-school quality, overall medical school performance, medicine performance, and USMLE Step 1 score.

Cited by 29 publications

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Improved clinical training of internal medicine students in hospital wards

Improved clinical training of internal medicine students in hospital wards

The Association Between Premedical Curricular and Admission Requirements and Medical School Performance and Residency Placement

Predicting success: What medical student measures predict resident performance in neurology?

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