Medical student perceptions of assessments of clinical reasoning in a general surgery clerkship

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Pairwise comparison of fairness

	Preceptor evaluations	Oral examination	Clinical documentation	OSCE	Shelf examination
Preceptor evaluations	–	< 0.0001*	< 0.0001*	0.0008*	< 0.0001*
Oral examination		–	0.3858	0.0152	0.2779
Clinical documentation			–	0.1629	0.0370
OSCE				–	0.0009*
Shelf exam					–

Pairwise comparison for fairness. Values in the table represent p-values. The null hypothesis is that the median of the population of differences between the paired data is zero (there is no difference in fairness between the two exams). Significance is 0.05/10 = 0.005. Significant values are marked with *

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