Could clinical experience during clerkship enhance students’ clinical performance?

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Pearson correlations between the number of patients encountered during clerkship and OSCE score, GPA

		History taking	Physical examination	PPI	Total score
IM (Hx)	r	0.053	0.016	0.142	0.090
IM (P/E)	r	0.122	0.090	0.189	0.148
GS (Hx)	r	0.194	0.230	0.190	0.224
GS (P/E)	r	0.249	0.242	0.269	0.278
OBGY (Hx)	r	0.125	0.013	0.178	0.133
OBGY (P/E)	r	0.083	-0.030	0.161	0.102
Ped (Hx)	r	0.050	0.037	0.164	0.089
Ped (P/E)	r	0.085	0.076	0.195	0.132
Psychiatry (Hx)	r	0.033	0.049	0.109	0.071
Psychiatry (P/E)	r	0.147	0.172	0.308	0.245
OS (Hx)	r	0.105	-0.006	0.081	0.072
OS (P/E)	r	0.074	-0.118	0.041	-0.003
EM (Hx)	r	0.120	0.105	0.194	0.166
EM (P/E)	r	0.116	0.073	0.202	0.156
Total (Hx)	r	0.156	0.119	0.238*	0.198
	p	0.148	0.174	0.036	0.095
Total (P/E)	r	0.227*	0.160	0.336*	0.274*
	p	0.045	0.148	<.0001	0.0105
GPA	r	0.271*	0.314*	0.244*	0.330*
	p	0.001	0.0003	0.005	0.0001

IM, internal medicine; GS, surgery; OBGY, obstetrics and gynecology; Ped, pediatrics; OS, orthopedics; EM, emergency medicine; Hx, history taking; P/E, physical examination; PPI, physician-patient interaction.
r = correlation coefficient.
p = adjusted p-value by Hochberg’s step up method.
*A p-value < .05 was considered statistically significant.

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