Student Failures on First-Year Medical Basic Science Courses and the USMLE Step 1: A Retrospective Study Over a 20-Year Period

被引:10
作者
Burns, E. Robert [1 ]
Garrett, Judy [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Arkansas Med Sci, Dept Neurobiol & Dev Sci, Coll Med, Little Rock, AR 72205 USA
[2] Univ Arkansas Med Sci, Coll Med, Off Educ Dev, Little Rock, AR 72205 USA
关键词
basic science education; medical education; preadmission variables; failure rates; basic science courses; USMLE step 1; COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; PREDICTING PERFORMANCE; SCHOOL PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; RISK; INSTRUCTION; TESTS;
D O I
10.1002/ase.1462
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 [教育学原理];
摘要
Correlates of achievement in the basic science years in medical school and on the Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (R) (USMLE (R)), (Step 1) in relation to preadmission variables have been the subject of considerable study. Preadmissions variables such as the undergraduate grade point average (uGPA) and Medical College Admission Test (R) (MCAT (R)) scores, solely or in combination, have previously been found to be predictors of achievement in the basic science years and/or on the Step 1. The purposes of this retrospective study were to: (1) determine if our statistical analysis confirmed previously published relationships between preadmission variables (MCAT, uGPA, and applicant pool size), and (2) study correlates of the number of failures in five M1 courses with those preadmission variables and failures on Step 1. Statistical analysis confirmed previously published relationships between all preadmission variables. Only one course, Microscopic Anatomy, demonstrated significant correlations with all variables studied including the Step 1 failures. Physiology correlated with three of the four variables studied, but not with the Step 1 failures. Analyses such as these provide a tool by which administrators will be able to identify what courses are or are not responding in appropriate ways to changes in the preadmissions variables that signal student performance on the Step 1. Anat Sci Educ 8: 120-125. (c) 2014 American Association of Anatomists.
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页码:120 / 125
页数:6
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