Medical students who decompress during the M-1 year outperform those who fail and repeat it: A study of M-1 students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign 1988–2000

Table 5 Comparison of USMLE Step 2 Between the Decompressed and Repeating Groups

Oneway Analysis of Step 2 By Program t-Test
	Difference	t-Test	DF	Prob>/t/
Estimate	-0.11712	-0.587	47	0.5598
Std Error	0.19942
Lower 95%	-0.5183
Upper 95%	0.28407
Means and Standard Deviations Level	Number	Mean	Std Dev	Std Err Mean	Lower 95%	Upper 95%
Decompress	37	1.21622	0.583816	0.09598	1.0216	1.4109
Repeat	12	1.33333	0.651339	0.18803	0.9195	1.7472

Table Five shows there was no significant difference on the number of attempts on USMLE Step 2 between the decompressed group and the repeating group.

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