Table 1.

Percentage of FY1 doctors judged to have failed each assessment

	EMQ	n	WUSCE	n WUSCE
	% failed	EMQ	% failed	WUSCE	Comparison*
EMQ 1 and WUSCE 5– Contra-indications in the use anti-coagulants and antibiotics	65.7%	35	68.0%	20	6
EMQ 2 and WUSCE 3– Anti-coagulants and analgesia in the post-operative patient	66.7%	42	61.1%	25	7
EMQ 3 and WUSCE 4– Diverticular disease; i.v. administration of antibiotics and fluids	51.0%	49	26.9%	21	19
EMQ 4 and WUSCE 6– Respiratory; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	56.7%	30	40.0%	18	8
EMQ 5– Diabetes; insulin selection	75.0%	28	–	–	–
EMQ 6 and WUSCE 2– Analgesia in emergency medicine	57.7%	26	70.3%	33	5
WUSCE 1– Renal failure; fluid management and arteriopathy	–	–	61.7%	44	–

Table 1 shows how the EMQs and WUSCEs relate to each other in terms of the medical domain they assess. The values are the percentage of the FY1s completing each assessment item who were deemed to have failed the item (EMQ and WUSCE). It also shows the number of FY1s who actually completed each of the items.

^*The number of individual FY1 doctors who completed both the WUSCE and EMQ and were therefore available for Spearman Rho correlation analysis.