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Which Internal Medicine Clerkship Characteristics Are Associated With Students' Performance On The Nbme Medicine Subject Exam? A Multi-Institutional Analysis., Matthew M. Fitz, William Adams, Steven A. Haist, Karen E. Hauer, Linette P. Ross, Amanda Raff, Gauri Agarwal, T. Robert Vu, Jonathan Appelbaum, Valerie J. Lang, Chad Miller, Cyril Grum, Mark Fagan, Jennifer Foster, Hilary F. Ryder, Bruce Houghton, Ryan Nall, Amy Shaheen, Michael Elnicki, Anna Donovan, Stuart Kiken, Cynthia Ledford, Shobhina Chheda, Doug Paauw, Blake Barker, Maureen Lowery, Nina Mingioni, Deepti Rao, William Kelly
Which Internal Medicine Clerkship Characteristics Are Associated With Students' Performance On The Nbme Medicine Subject Exam? A Multi-Institutional Analysis., Matthew M. Fitz, William Adams, Steven A. Haist, Karen E. Hauer, Linette P. Ross, Amanda Raff, Gauri Agarwal, T. Robert Vu, Jonathan Appelbaum, Valerie J. Lang, Chad Miller, Cyril Grum, Mark Fagan, Jennifer Foster, Hilary F. Ryder, Bruce Houghton, Ryan Nall, Amy Shaheen, Michael Elnicki, Anna Donovan, Stuart Kiken, Cynthia Ledford, Shobhina Chheda, Doug Paauw, Blake Barker, Maureen Lowery, Nina Mingioni, Deepti Rao, William Kelly
Division of Internal Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations
PURPOSE: To identify which internal medicine clerkship characteristics may relate to NBME Medicine Subject Examination scores, given the growing trend toward earlier clerkship start dates.
METHOD: The authors used linear mixed effects models (univariable and multivariable) to determine associations between medicine exam performance and clerkship characteristics (longitudinal status, clerkship length, academic start month, ambulatory clinical experience, presence of a study day, involvement in a combined clerkship, preclinical curriculum type, medicine exam timing). Additional covariates included number of NBME clinical subject exams used, number of didactic hours, use of a criterion score for passing the medicine exam, whether medicine exam performance …