Profiling strugglers in a graduate-entry medicine course at Nottingham: a retrospective case study

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Categories of student identified

	GEM	UG ⁺
Completed the course	n = 38	*n = 87*
Struggler – problems in both pre-clinical & clinical parts of course	8	25
Pre-clinical problems predominated	3	18
Clinical course problems predominated	5	8
Problems largely health related	14	17
Borderline performance	8	19
Did not complete the course	n = 15	*n = 75*
Still on course, discarded from database	1	2
Left course voluntarily	8*	59
Course terminated	6	14

*2 students left the course in the initial weeks – no relevant data was identified.
+ figures in italics from Nottingham UG medicine course [1].

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