PMID- 19797600
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091203
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1758-1095 (Electronic)
IS  - 0141-0768 (Print)
IS  - 0141-0768 (Linking)
VI  - 102
IP  - 10
DP  - 2009 Oct
TI  - Examination performance of graduate entry medical students compared with 
      mainstream students.
PG  - 425-30
LID - 10.1258/jrsm.2009.090121 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: To assess whether medical students on graduate entry/fast- track 
      programmes perform as well as students on standard courses. DESIGN: Retrospective 
      cohort study. SETTING: University of Birmingham Medical School. PARTICIPANTS: 
      Medical students on graduate entry/fast-track course and standard (5-year) course 
      ('mainstream'). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Examination marks from all assessments 
      taken simultaneously by graduate entry course (GEC) and mainstream course 
      students once the cohorts have combined: i.e. for the final three years of the 
      programme. Honours awards for 2007 and 2008 graduates. RESULTS: In total 19,263 
      examination results were analysed from 1547 students. Of these 161 were GEC 
      students and 1386 were mainstream medical students. On average mainstream 
      students, male students, overseas students and students of South Asian ethnicity 
      obtained lower examination marks than graduate entry students, female students, 
      home or EU students and students of non-South Asian ethnicity, respectively. 
      Graduate entry students were significantly more likely to achieve honours degrees 
      than mainstream students. CONCLUSION: On average the academic performance of 
      Graduate Entry medical students at the University of Birmingham is better than 
      mainstream medical students.
FAU - Calvert, Melanie J
AU  - Calvert MJ
AD  - University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. M.Calvert@bham.ac.uk
FAU - Ross, Nick M
AU  - Ross NM
FAU - Freemantle, Nick
AU  - Freemantle N
FAU - Xu, Yong
AU  - Xu Y
FAU - Zvauya, Remigio
AU  - Zvauya R
FAU - Parle, Jim V
AU  - Parle JV
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - J R Soc Med
JT  - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
JID - 7802879
SB  - IM
CIN - J R Soc Med. 2009 Dec;102(12):507. PMID: 19966124
MH  - Education, Graduate
MH  - Education, Medical, Undergraduate/*organization & administration
MH  - Educational Measurement/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Educational Status
MH  - England
MH  - Humans
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - *School Admission Criteria
MH  - *Schools, Medical
MH  - Students, Medical
PMC - PMC2755335
EDAT- 2009/10/03 06:00
MHDA- 2009/12/16 06:00
PMCR- 2009/10/01
CRDT- 2009/10/03 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/10/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/16 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2009/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 102/10/425 [pii]
AID - 10.1258/jrsm.2009.090121 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J R Soc Med. 2009 Oct;102(10):425-30. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2009.090121.