The relationship between school type and academic performance at medical school: a national, multi-cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Differential attainment in school examinations is one of the barriers to increasing student diversity in medicine. However, studies on the predictive validity of prior academic achievement and educational performance at medical school are contradictory, possibly due to single-site studies or studies which focus only on early years' performance. To address these gaps, we examined the relationship between sociodemographic factors, including school type and average educational performance throughout medical school across a large number of diverse medical programmes.

Methods

This retrospective study analysed data from students who graduated from 33 UK medical schools between 2012 and 2013. We included candidates' demographics, pre-entry grades (adjusted Universities a

SUBMITTER: Kumwenda B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5589012 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature