Table 2.
Correlations between academic measures and PGY1 performance
| |
Junior Doctor Performance Measures |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic performance measures N = 200 | Clinical management subscale | Communication subscale | Combined overall score | |
| GPA |
r |
0.280 |
0.288 |
0.257 |
| P |
<0.001** |
0.257 |
<0.001** |
|
| Year 4 OSCE |
r |
0.197 |
0.225 |
0.137 |
| P |
0.003** |
0.001** |
0.027* |
|
| Year 5 OSCE |
r |
0.172 |
0.224 |
0.161 |
| P |
0.007** |
0.001** |
0.022* |
|
| Emergency medicine |
r |
0.219 |
0.137 |
0.361 |
| P |
0.001** |
0.027* |
<0.001** |
|
| Psychiatry |
r |
0.075 |
0.161 |
0.094 |
| P |
0.146 |
0.011* |
0.092 |
|
| Medicine |
r |
0.194 |
0.157 |
0.162 |
| P |
0.003** |
0.013* |
0.011* |
|
| Surgery |
r |
.026 |
0.091 |
.100 |
| P |
0.358 |
0.100 |
0.080 |
|
| Yr 5 written exam |
r |
0.153 |
0.067 |
0.076 |
| P |
0.017* |
0.177 |
0.148 |
|
| Yr 6 written exam | r |
0.136 |
0.088 |
0.178 |
| P | 0.027* | 0.107 | 0.014* | |
r = Pearson correlation coefficient, P = 2-tailed probability where *is significant at p < 0.05 and **is significant at p < 0.01.