Table 3.
Hierarchical multiple regression models using undergraduate grade point average (GPA), Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) verbal reasoning scores and microanalytic strategic planning scores to predict four performance outcomes for second-year medical students, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, academic years 2010–2011 and 2011–2012
| Performance outcomes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course grade (n = 70) | Second-year GPA (n = 67) | |||||||||
| B | SE B | β | ΔR2 | R2 | B | SE B | β | ΔR2 | R2 | |
| Step 1 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.05 | ||||||
| Undergraduate GPA | 1.83 | 2.42 | 0.09 | 0.31 | 0.24 | 0.15 | ||||
| MCAT verbal reasoning score | −0.15 | 0.41 | −0.04 | −0.03 | 0.04 | −0.09 | ||||
| Step 2 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.19 | ||||||
| Strategic planning score | 1.13 | 0.33 | 0.39 | 0.11 | 0.03 | 0.38 | ||||
| USMLE Step 1 score (n = 56) | NBME score (n = 68) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE B | β | ΔR2 | R 2 | B | SE B | β | ΔR2 | R 2 | |
| Step 1 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ||||||
| Undergraduate GPA | 15.93 | 9.44 | 0.22 | 0.25 | 3.83 | 0.01 | ||||
| MCAT verbal reasoning score | −1.57 | 1.59 | −0.13 | −0.34 | 0.64 | −0.07 | ||||
| Step 2 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.11 | ||||||
| Strategic planning score | 2.97 | 1.31 | 0.29 | 1.39 | 0.51 | 0.32 | ||||
USMLE = United States Medical Licensing Examination; NBME = National Board of Medical Examiners subject examination in internal medicine.
†
p < 0.05.
‡
p < 0.01.
§
Only students from academic years 2010–2011 had USMLE Step 1 scores (n = 56).