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- Title
Medical School Clinical Knowledge Exam Scores, Not Demographic or Other Factors, Associated With Residency In-Training Exam Performance.
- Authors
Patzkowski, Michael S; Hauser, Joshua M; Liu, Mark; Herrera, Germaine F; Highland, Krista B; Capener, Dale C
- Abstract
Background The anesthesiology in-training exam (ITE) is a 200-item multiple-choice assessment completed annually by physician residents. Because all matriculated U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) anesthesiology residents are "hired" by the DoD after residency graduation, it is important to ensure that ITE performance, as a proxy for core competencies achievement, is maximized. Methods Graduated resident program files from 2013 to 2020 were queried for age, sex, matriculant status (medical student vs. other), medical school (Uniformed Services University vs. other), military service (Army vs. Air Force), preresidency military service (yes vs. no), U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) score, and the American Board of Anesthesiologists ITE Score from the third clinical anesthesia year (CA-3 year). Results For every 1-point increase in USMLE Step 2 CK true z -score, the CA-3 ITE z -score increased by 0.59 points. Age was not associated with CA-3 ITE z -score in any dataset regression. Categorical covariates of sex, application status, medical school, service, and preresidency military service were not significantly associated with CA-3 ITE z -score (all P >.05), as shown by estimated adjusted marginal means. The estimated adjusted grand mean of CA-3 ITE z -scores was 0.48 (standard error ± 0.14). Conclusion Resident physicians enter residency with varying degrees of past academic success, and it is important to develop early strategies to support them in acquiring the requisite knowledge base.
- Subjects
UNIFORMED Services University of the Health Sciences; MEDICAL schools; ANESTHESIOLOGY; MEDICINE; ANESTHESIOLOGY education
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2023, Vol 188, Issue 1/2, pe388
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/milmed/usab332