Using ACGME milestones as a formative assessment for the internal medicine clerkship: a consecutive two-year outcome and follow-up after graduation

Table 1 The Comparison of Scoring of Mini-CEX in the Same Year Clerkship

N = 65	First-year clerkship	Second-year clerkship
Medical interviewing	4.4 ± 0.6	4.7 ± 0.7^a
Physical examination	4.3 ± 0.7	4.4 ± 0.7
Informed decision-making/Counselling	4.4 ± 0.6	4.4 ± 0.6^a
Clinical judgement/Reasoning	4.4 ± 0.6	4.5 ± 0.6
Organization/Efficiency	4.4 ± 0.6	4.4 ± 0.6
Professionalism/Humanity	4.5 ± 0.6	4.5 ± 0.6
Overall clinical competency	4.4 ± 0.6	4.6 ± 0.6

Data was expressed as mean ± standard deviation. The same alphabet indicates significant differences between the indicated competencies in the same year of learning by the Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s post hoc test

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