Table 2.

Demographic data and mean exam test performance scores for the total sample and for each medical school

	Total sample	GW	ZSOM	UICOMUC
	N = 130	46 (35%)	68 (52%)	16 (12%)
Age (years)
20–25	57 (44%)	23 (50%)	30 (44%)	4 (25%)
26–30	62 (48%)	20 (44%)	35 (52%)	7 (44%)
31–35	9 (7%)	2 (4%)	3 (4.4%)	4 (25%)
36 +	2 (2%)	1 (2%)	0	1 (6%)
USMLE exam scores, mean (SD)
Step 1, N = 130	234 (16)	230 (16)	237 (16)	229 (15)
Step 2 CK, N = 128	248 (14)	247 (15)	248 (13)	244 (12)
Most recent clerkship shelf, percentile score, N = 125	63 (26)	54 (27)	70 (23)	55 (28)
Undergraduate major, N = 130*
Arts	6 (5%)	4 (9%)	2 (3%)	0
Behavioral and social sciences	21 (16%)	8 (17%)	11 (16%)	2 (13%)
Business	4 (3%)	2 (4%)	2 (3%)	0
Engineering	8 (6%)	3 (7%)	3 (4%)	2 (13%)
Health and medical sciences	10 (8%)	5 (11%)	4 (6%)	1 (6%)
Humanities	15 (12%)	6 (13%)	8 (12%)	1 (6%)
Life/biological sciences	68 (52%)	19 (41%)	38 (56%)	11 (69%)
Physical sciences and math	14 (11%)	2 (4%)	8 (12%)	4 (25%)
Premedical	13 (10%)	7 (15%)	6 (9%)	0
Other	9 (7%)	6 (13%)	3 (4%)	0
Specialty of interest, N = 128
Anesthesiology	6 (5%)	1 (2%)	4 (6%)	1 (7%)
Dermatology	1 (1%)	0	0	1 (7%)
Emergency medicine	22 (17%)	5 (11%)	15 (22%)	2 (13%)
Family medicine	4 (3%)	3 (7%)	1 (2%)	0
Internal medicine	19 (15%)	8 (17%)	9 (13%)	2 (13%)
Neurology	3 (2%)	0	2 (3%)	1 (7%)
Obstetrics and gynecology	7 (6%)	6 (13%)	1 (2%)	0
Ophthalmology	5 (4%)	3 (7%)	1 (2%)	1 (7%)
Pathology	1 (1%)	0	0	1 (7%)
Pediatrics	17 (13%)	4 (9%)	10 (15%)	3 (20%)
Physical medicine and rehab	1 (1%)	0	1 (2%)	0
Psychiatry	7 (6%)	3 (7%)	3 (5%)	1 (7%)
Radiology	6 (5%)	1 (2%)	5 (8%)	0
Surgery	24 (19%)	11 (24%)	13 (19%)	0
Urology	1 (1%)	0	1 (2%)	0
Other	4 (3%)	1 (2%)	1 (2%)	2 (13%)

^*Thirty-one students reported more than 1 major. The % reported is out of 130 students