Table 6.

Associations with resource scores

Outcome variable	Possible range of variable	Statistically significant predictors	Effect size	95% Confidence intervals	P-Value
Building score	0 to 24	French as a language of instruction	-4.9	-6.8 to-3.0	P < 0.0001
		GDP per capita (in US$, log scale)	1.6	0.54 to 2.8	P = 0.0047
Library score	0 to 32	Age of medical school (in years)	0.14	0.075 to 0.20	P < 0.0001
		English as a language of instruction	6.3	3.3 to 9.2	P < 0.0001
		Public ownership of medical School	-6.0	-9.1 to-2.9	P = 0.00024
		GDP per capita (in US$, log scale)	2.3	0.0014 to 4.6	P = 0.0499
Clinical sites score	0 to 24	Age of medical school (in years)	0.059	0.011 to 0.11	P = 0.015
		Arabic as a language of instruction	4.1	0.60 to 7.5	P = 0.022
Laboratory score	0 to 24	Age of medical school (in years)	0.092	0.037 to 0.15	P = 0.0015
		GDP per capita (in US$, log scale)	2.8	0.85 to 4.7	P = 0.0062
		Public ownership of medical school	-3.2	-6.0 to-0.33	P = 0.029
Internet score	0 to 32	GDP per capita (in US$, log scale)	4.1	2.3 to 5.8	P < 0.0001
		Public ownership of medical school	-3.6	-6.9 to-0.24	P = 0.036
Advanced ICT score	0 to 24	Age of medical school (in years)	0.094	0.051 to 0.14	P < 0.0001
		Annual tuition (in thousands of US$)	0.71	0.35 to 1.1	P = 0.00015
		GDP per capita (in US$, log scale)	2.6	0.92 to 4.2	P = 0.0032