Salem Raneem O, Al-Mously Najwa, AlFadil Sara, Baalash Amal
a Faculty of Medicine , King Fahad Medical City , Saudi Arabia.
Med Teach. 2016;38 Suppl 1:S26-30. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2016.1142511.
Various factors affect medical students' performance during clinical phase. Identifying these factors would help in mentoring weak students and help in selection process for residency programmes.
Our study objective is to evaluate the impact of pre-admission criteria, and pre-clinical grade point average (GPA) on undergraduate medical students' performance during clinical phase.
This study has a cross-sectional design that includes fifth- and sixth-year female medical students (71). Data of clinical and pre-clinical GPA in medical school and pre-admission to medical school tests scores were collected.
A significant correlation between clinical GPA with the pre-clinical GPA was observed (p < 0.05). Such significant correlation was not seen with other variables under study. A regression analysis was performed, and the only significant predictor of students clinical performance was the pre-clinical GPA (p < 0.001). However, no significant difference between students' clinical and pre-clinical GPA for both cohorts was observed (p > 0.05).
Pre-clinical GPA is strongly correlated with and can predict medical students' performance during clinical years. Our study highlighted the importance of evaluating the academic performances of students in pre-clinical years before they move into clinical years in order to identify weak students to mentor them and monitor their progress.
多种因素会影响医学生临床阶段的表现。识别这些因素将有助于指导学习薄弱的学生，并有助于住院医师培训项目的选拔过程。
我们的研究目的是评估入学前标准和临床前平均绩点（GPA）对本科医学生临床阶段表现的影响。
本研究采用横断面设计，纳入了五年级和六年级的女医学生（共71名）。收集了医学院临床和临床前GPA的数据以及医学院入学前测试成绩。
观察到临床GPA与临床前GPA之间存在显著相关性（p<0.05）。在其他研究变量中未观察到这种显著相关性。进行了回归分析，学生临床成绩的唯一显著预测因素是临床前GPA（p<0.001）。然而，两个队列的学生临床和临床前GPA之间未观察到显著差异（p>0.05）。
临床前GPA与医学生临床阶段的表现密切相关且可预测。我们的研究强调了在学生进入临床阶段之前评估其临床前几年学业成绩的重要性，以便识别学习薄弱的学生并对其进行指导和监测其进展。
