Adusumilli S, Cohan R H, Marshall K W, Fitzgerald J T, Oh M S, Gross B H, Ellis J H
Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, USA.
Acad Radiol. 2000 Aug;7(8):635-40. doi: 10.1016/s1076-6332(00)80580-2.
Residency selection committees expend substantial time and resources on assessing the quality of residency applicants to derive an appropriate rank order for the National Residency Matching Program. The authors determined whether there is a relationship between the rank number or rank percentile of applicants selected for a residency training program and subsequent radiology residency performance.
Records of radiology residents completing their residency between 1991 and 1998 were reviewed. Available rank numbers and rank percentiles for each resident were compared with subsequent performance, as assessed subjectively by 4th-year radiology rotation evaluation forms and retrospective recall of four senior faculty members and objectively by numerical and percentile scores on the written portion of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) examinations. Correlation coefficients were obtained for each comparison.
Rank number and rank percentile were not significantly correlated with 4th-year resident rotation evaluations or ABR written examination scores or percentiles. A small correlation existed between rank order and retrospective evaluation of resident performance by the four senior faculty.
Applicant rank number and rank percentile do not correlate with subsequent radiology residency performance as assessed on rotation evaluation forms or the ABR written examinations.
住院医师选拔委员会花费大量时间和资源评估住院医师申请人的质量，以便为国家住院医师匹配计划得出合适的排名顺序。作者确定了被选入住院医师培训项目的申请人的排名数字或排名百分位数与随后的放射科住院医师表现之间是否存在关联。
回顾了1991年至1998年期间完成住院医师培训的放射科住院医师的记录。将每位住院医师的可用排名数字和排名百分位数与随后的表现进行比较，表现通过放射科四年级轮转评估表主观评估，以及由四位资深教员进行回顾性回忆评估，同时通过美国放射学会（ABR）考试笔试部分的数字分数和百分位数分数进行客观评估。对每次比较都获得了相关系数。
排名数字和排名百分位数与四年级住院医师轮转评估或ABR笔试成绩及百分位数均无显著相关性。排名顺序与四位资深教员对住院医师表现的回顾性评估之间存在较小的相关性。
根据轮转评估表或ABR笔试评估，申请人的排名数字和排名百分位数与随后的放射科住院医师表现无关。
