The Correlation Between Students’ Progress Testing Scores and Their Performance in a Residency Selection Process

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dc.contributor.authorHamamoto Filho, Pedro Tadao [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorde Arruda Lourenção, Pedro Luiz Toledo [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authordo Valle, Adriana Polachini [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorAbbade, Joélcio Francisco [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorBicudo, Angélica Maria
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-12T01:44:35Z
dc.date.available2020-12-12T01:44:35Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-01
dc.description.abstractBrazil is currently seeing an increased number of medical schools, leading to high competition for medical residency vacancies. Public managers have thus considered Progress Testing scores potentially useful as part of the final decision in the medical residency selection process. We analyzed whether there is a correlation between students’ Progress Testing scores and their performances in medical residency selection. We examined four subsequent cohorts of students who attempted Progress Testing yearly and compared their accumulated scores with their medical residency selection scores from Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista. We included 212 students who finished the 6-year medical course in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The comparison between the area under the Progress Testing curve and the medical residency selection score was performed using a Pearson correlation, with a p value set at < 0.05. We found a positive association between the two scores (p < 0.05 for the 4 years). Next, the students were grouped according to their performance in Progress Testing: above one, within one, and below one standard deviation. A chi-square test was used to compare the rates of approval with the second step of the medical residency selection process. Approval rates were 91.7%, 69.2%, and 42.1%, respectively (p < 0.05). We conclude that, in fact, there is a correlation between students’ performance on these measures. This is partially explained by the fact that both instruments measure cognitive competencies and knowledge. These data may support national policy changes for medical residency selection.en
dc.description.affiliationBotucatu Medical School Department of Neurology Psychology and Psychiatry UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationBotucatu Medical School Department of Surgery an Orthopedics UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationBotucatu Medical School Department of Internal Medicine UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationBotucatu Medical School Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationSchool of Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics UNICAMP – Univ Estadual de Campinas
dc.description.affiliationUnespBotucatu Medical School Department of Neurology Psychology and Psychiatry UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationUnespBotucatu Medical School Department of Surgery an Orthopedics UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationUnespBotucatu Medical School Department of Internal Medicine UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationUnespBotucatu Medical School Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista
dc.format.extent1071-1075
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00811-4
dc.identifier.citationMedical Science Educator, v. 29, n. 4, p. 1071-1075, 2019.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s40670-019-00811-4
dc.identifier.issn2156-8650
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85074561550
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/199611
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMedical Science Educator
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAssessment
dc.subjectMedical residency selection
dc.subjectProgress testing
dc.subjectUndergraduate medical education
dc.titleThe Correlation Between Students’ Progress Testing Scores and Their Performance in a Residency Selection Processen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-6436-9307[1]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-8753-646X[2]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-0090-8524[3]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-1487-1451[4]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0003-3043-5147[5]

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