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Table 9 Surgical specialty subgroup analysis of clinical reasoning

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

Assessment

Pursuing surgical specialty (n = 27)

Not pursuing surgical specialty (n = 81)

p-value

Preceptor evaluations

12 (44.44%)

35 (43.21%)

0.8799

Oral examination

21 (77.78%)

67 (82.72%)

0.8368

Oral examination feedback

20 (74.07%)

64 (79.01%)

0.5520

Clinical documentation

20 (74.07%)

56 (69.14%)

0.5008

Clinical documentation feedback

23 (85.19%)

70 (86.42%)

0.7647

OSCE

16 (56.26%)

55 (67.90%)

0.6197

OSCE feedback

17 (62.96%)

57 (70.37%)

0.9939

  1. Subgroup analysis for those 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 analyses for student perceptions of insight into clinical reasoning. Due to the number of tests, a multiplicity adjustment (Bonferroni Adjustment) was implemented, the associated significance level of determination is now .05/5 = .01