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Table 2 Correlations between academic measures and PGY1 performance

From: Relationships between academic performance of medical students and their workplace performance as junior doctors

 

Junior Doctor Performance Measures

Academic performance measures N = 200

Clinical management subscale

Communication subscale

Combined overall score

GPA

r

0.280

0.288

0.257

P

<0.001**

0.257

<0.001**

Year 4 OSCE

r

0.197

0.225

0.137

P

0.003**

0.001**

0.027*

Year 5 OSCE

r

0.172

0.224

0.161

P

0.007**

0.001**

0.022*

Emergency medicine

r

0.219

0.137

0.361

P

0.001**

0.027*

<0.001**

Psychiatry

r

0.075

0.161

0.094

P

0.146

0.011*

0.092

Medicine

r

0.194

0.157

0.162

P

0.003**

0.013*

0.011*

Surgery

r

.026

0.091

.100

P

0.358

0.100

0.080

Yr 5 written exam

r

0.153

0.067

0.076

P

0.017*

0.177

0.148

Yr 6 written exam

r

0.136

0.088

0.178

P

0.027*

0.107

0.014*

  1. r = Pearson correlation coefficient, P = 2-tailed probability where *is significant at p < 0.05 and **is significant at p < 0.01.