Pre-admission criteria and pre-clinical achievement: Can they predict medical students performance in the clinical phase?

Abstract:

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.

journal_name

Med Teach

journal_title

Medical teacher

authors

Salem RO,Al-Mously N,AlFadil S,Baalash A

doi

10.3109/0142159X.2016.1142511

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-01-01 00:00:00

pages

S26-30

eissn

0142-159X

issn

1466-187X

journal_volume

38 Suppl 1

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