ÉTude de l’IMpact de Conférences sur la réussite aux ECN en Lorraine. Étude interventionnelle ETIMCEL

Predictive factors of success at the French National Ranking Examination (NRE): a retrospective study of the student performance from a French medical school

“…In 2015, Gillois et al, demonstrated that integrated university-hospital training programs that coincide with faculty courses over time could provide a successful way for improving student success at NRE [22]. In addition, the results of the Agrinier et al in 2015 seems to corroborate the results of our study [13].…”

“…While these results are in agreement with literature data in that a high level of intrinsic motivation often correlates with better exam success, none of the studies investigating predictive factors for NRE success previously published had shown this correlation [10–12]. Nevertheless, in 2015 Agrinier et al, showed that there was a tendency to gain places when intrinsic and extrinsic motivations was high, but their results were not confirmed in multivariate analysis [13]. Intrinsic motivation (defined as the driving force for the realization of an act from which the individual derives pleasure or satisfaction [14]) of the student was measured by a Likert-scale self-survey developed for this study.…”

“…Finally, this study confirms that the fact of having repeated the first year but also repeating during the university course (independently of the first year) was independently and significantly associated with an average loss of more than 1000 places at the NRE. Indeed, previous studies have also demonstrated this state of affairs [10, 12, 13, 22, 23].…”

“…In 2011, Karila et al, did not demonstrate that regular attendance at medical school conferences was significantly and independently associated with a top-500 ranking at the ECN in multivariate analysis, although it appeared that this was the case in univariate analysis [10]. In 2015, Agrinier et al reported that attendance of NRE training conferences was significantly and independently associated with an average gain of 873 NRE places with a dose-effect relationship of 63 places per conference attended [13]. More recently, in a study of predictive factors for success at the 2017 computerized-NRE and presented at the 76th congress of the French National Society of Internal Medicine (SNFMI), Bellamine et al, demonstrated that participation in training conferences organized by the medical school is significantly and independently associated with success at the computerized-NRE [21].…”