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Correlation between students' results in pre‐clinical and final surgery examinations *
Author(s) -
BLACK R. B.,
STENHOUSE N. S.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1976.tb00540.x
Subject(s) - correlation , test (biology) , medicine , regression analysis , predictive value , educational measurement , psychology , surgery , statistics , mathematics , curriculum , pedagogy , paleontology , geometry , biology
Summary The results obtained in each subject of the first 4 years of a 6 year course in medicine were assessed and compared with the final result obtained in surgery together with the result from a class test in surgery at the beginning of the fifth year. Two hundred and thirty‐five students graduating between 1969 and 1973 were assessed, the correlations being tested with regression techniques. There was a highly significant degree of correlation between the final surgery result and all the previous records. However, there was a wide scatter of results, and the predictive value for the individual student was imprecise.