TABLE 2.
Mean 2021 American Board of Emergency Medicine in‐training examination scaled scores by program format.
| Emergency medicine 1‐3 programs | Emergency medicine 1‐4 programs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency medicine year | No. of residents | Mean score (95% CI) | No. residents | Mean score (95% CI) | Student t test (P value) a | Effect size (d) |
| 1 | 2127 | 70.2 (69.9–70.5) | 624 | 68.2 (67.6–68.8) | <0.001 | 0.28 |
| 2 | 1996 | 76.6 (76.3–76.9) | 630 | 73.8 (73.2–74.4) | <0.001 | 0.38 |
| 3 | 1861 | 79.7 (79.4–80.0) | 616 | 78.1 (77.5–78.7) | <0.001 | 0.22 |
| 4 | NA | NA | 637 | 80.3 (79.6–80.9) | NA b | NA |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; NA, not applicable.
a
Statistical significance was determined a priori to be α < 0.01.
b
t test comparison of emergency medicine 3 in 1‐3 programs and emergency medicine 4 residents showed no statistical difference; P = 0.1; Cohens d = −0.08 (negligible).