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Table 4 Surgical specialty subgroup analysis of fairness

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

Assessment

Pursuing surgical specialty (n = 27)

Pursuing non-surgical specialty (n = 81)

p-value

Preceptor evaluations

13 (48.18%)

33 (40.74%)

0.7707

Oral examination

19 (70.37%)

62 (76.54%)

0.4432

Clinical documentation

19 (70.37%)

50 (61.73%)

0.1898

OSCE

16 (59.26%)

50 (61.73%)

0.9418

Shelf exam

21 (77.78%)

63 (77.78%)

0.8668

  1. Subgroup analysis by those who are planning on pursuing a surgical specialty. Percentage Strongly Agree and Agree reported. P-value is for the Wilcoxon Rank Sum analysis. Two missing surveys excluded
  2. Subgroup analysis for fairness of each assessment. Due to the number of tests, a multiplicity adjustment (Bonferroni Adjustment) was implemented, and the associated significance level of determination is now .05/5 = .01