Résultats des épreuves classantes nationales (ECN) 2014

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

“…The main objective of the NRE is to rank medical students, but it also allows ranking right across all 35 french medical schools on the basis of their students performances at this examination [3, 4]. Since 2010, a yearly statistical analysis of the results of the NRE gives the ranking of French medical schools, which remains substantially identical from year to year [4–9]. In this context, it seems obvious that a given student, regardless of their potential for personal success, does not have the same probability of success at NRE dependent on their medical school of attendance.…”

“…Rabineau and Dhainaut in 2010 reinforces this unequal picture by demonstrating that there is a triple correlation between the percentage of students ranked in the top 1000 at the NRE, the research activity of university hospital practitioners and the ratio of university hospital practitioners relative to the number of students from different medical schools [3]. Every year amongst, the medical school of Reims is invariably ranked the lowest in France in terms of success of its students at the NRE [4–9]. In this sense, it seemed interesting to determine whether the predictive factors for NRE success previously described in the literature were influenced by the student’s school of medicine of attendance.…”