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Pre-admission criteria and pre-clinical achievement: Can they predict medical students performance in the clinical phase?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Salem, Raneem O. Al-Mously, Najwa AlFadil, Sara Baalash, Amal |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Journal: Medical Teacher Rational: Various factors affect medical students' performance during clinical phase. Identifying these factors would help in mentoring weak students and help in selection process for residency programmes. Objective: Our study objective is to evaluate the impact of pre-admission criteria, and pre-clinical grade point average (GPA) on undergraduate medical students' performance during clinical phase. Method: This study has a cross-sectional design that includes fifth- and sixth-year female medical students (71). Data of clinical and pre-clinical GPA in medical school and pre-admission to medical school tests scores were collected. Results: A significant correlation between clinical GPA with the pre-clinical GPA was observed (p < 0.05). Such significant correlation was not seen with other variables under study. A regression analysis was performed, and the only significant predictor of students clinical performance was the pre-clinical GPA (p < 0.001). However, no significant difference between students' clinical and pre-clinical GPA for both cohorts was observed (p > 0.05). Conclusion: Pre-clinical GPA is strongly correlated with and can predict medical students' performance during clinical years. Our study highlighted the importance of evaluating the academic performances of students in pre-clinical years before they move into clinical years in order to identify weak students to mentor them and monitor their progress. |
| Related Links | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/0142159X.2016.1142511 |
| Ending Page | S30 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Starting Page | S26 |
| ISSN | 0142159X |
| e-ISSN | 1466187X |
| DOI | 10.3109/0142159x.2016.1142511 |
| Journal | Medical Teacher |
| Issue Number | sup1 |
| Volume Number | 38 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2016-03-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Medical Teacher Education Research Pre Clinical Performance During Clinical Students Performance Predict Medical Students Clinical Gpa |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Education Medicine |
