Table 2.
| Term | No. (%) of schools using descriptor | Range of student percentile ranks |
|---|---|---|
| Excellent | 53 (84) | 1st–95th |
| Outstanding | 52 (83) | 33rd–99th |
| Very good | 51 (81)b | 1st–80th |
| Good | 42 (67)b | 1st–57th |
Abbreviations: MSPE indicates medical student performance evaluation; UC Irvine, University of California, Irvine.
a
This study used MSPEs received by the UC Irvine emergency medicine residency program in the 2012–2013 and 2014–2015 application cycles. MSPEs received by the UC Irvine internal medicine program in 2014–2015 or obtained directly from schools were used to include schools from which the emergency medicine program did not receive applications.
b
“Very good” and “good” were terms commonly used for schools’ non-last fourth and fifth groups; therefore, the totals for “very good” and “good” in Table 2 do not match the totals for these terms in Chart 1.