NDLI: Do students from public schools fare better in medical school than their colleagues from private schools? If so, what can we learn from this?

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Costa-Santos, Cristina Vieira-Marques, Pedro Costa-Pereira, Altamiro Ferreira, Maria Amélia Freitas, Alberto
Abstract	Background Internal grade inflation is a documented practice in secondary schools (mostly in private schools) that jeopardises fairness with regard to access to medical school. However, it is frequently assumed that the higher internal grades are in fact justifiable, as they correspond to better preparation of students in private schools in areas that national exams do not cover but nevertheless are important. Consequently, it is expected that students from private schools will succeed better in medical school than their colleagues, or at least not perform worse. We aimed to study whether students from private schools do fare better in medical school than their colleagues from public schools, even after adjusting for internal grade inflation. Methods We analysed all students that entered into a medical course from 2007 to 2014. A linear regression was performed using mean grades for the 1st-year curse units (CU) of the medical school curriculum as a dependent variable and student gender, the nature of students’ secondary school (public/private), and whether their secondary school highly inflated grades as independent variables. A logistic regression was also performed, modelling whether or not students failed at least one CU exam during the 1st year of medical school as a function of the aforementioned independent variables. Results Of the 1709 students analysed, 55% came from public secondary schools. Private (vs. public) secondary school (β = − 0.459, p < 0.001) and whether secondary schools highly inflated grades (β = − 0.246, p = 0.003) were independent factors that significantly influenced grades during the first year of medical school. Having attended a private secondary school also significantly increased the odds of a student having failed at least one CU exam during the 1st year of medical school (OR = 1.33), even after adjusting for whether or not the secondary school used highly inflated grades. Conclusions It is important to further discuss what we can learn from the fact that students from public secondary schools seem to be better prepared for medical school teaching methodologies than their colleagues from private ones and the implications for the selection process.
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ISSN	14726920
DOI	10.1186/s12909-018-1162-x
Journal	BMC Medical Education
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	18
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2018-03-27
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Medical Education Theory of Medicine Bioethics Performance in medical school Access to medical school Grade inflation Public and private secondary schooling Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Medicine
Journal Impact Factor	2.7/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.4/2023

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