Impact of subspecialty elective exposures on outcomes on the American board of internal medicine certification examination

Table 2 Mean (95% CI) delta-SPS by demographic characteristics

	n	Mean delta-SPS	95%CI	*p value*
Female	55	117.4	96.2-138.5	0.0485
Male	76	146.6	126.9-166.2	0.0485
Age ≥31	67	133.5	111.8-155.3	0.91
Age ≤30	64	135.1	115.6-154.6	0.91
Number of elective exposures ≤14	44	143.4	122.5-164.3	0.051
Number of elective exposures ≥15	87	129.7	110.4-148.9	0.051
Number of unique electives ≤8	101	134.3	117.7-150.9	1.00
Number of unique electives ≥9	30	134.2	102.9-165.4

P-values calculated using two-tailed t-test. Male:Female ratio for the entire cohort was 1.38. Male:Female ratio for the group with ≤14 elective exposures was 1.32 compared to 1.41 for the group with ≥15 elective exposures (p=ns).

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