Relationships between academic performance of medical students and their workplace performance as junior doctors

Table 2 Correlations between academic measures and PGY1 performance

		Junior Doctor Performance Measures
Academic performance measures N = 200		Clinical management subscale	Communication subscale	Combined overall score
GPA	r	0.280	0.288	0.257
GPA	P	<0.001**	0.257	<0.001**
Year 4 OSCE	r	0.197	0.225	0.137
Year 4 OSCE	P	0.003**	0.001**	0.027*
Year 5 OSCE	r	0.172	0.224	0.161
Year 5 OSCE	P	0.007**	0.001**	0.022*
Emergency medicine	r	0.219	0.137	0.361
Emergency medicine	P	0.001**	0.027*	<0.001**
Psychiatry	r	0.075	0.161	0.094
Psychiatry	P	0.146	0.011*	0.092
Medicine	r	0.194	0.157	0.162
Medicine	P	0.003**	0.013*	0.011*
Surgery	r	.026	0.091	.100
Surgery	P	0.358	0.100	0.080
Yr 5 written exam	r	0.153	0.067	0.076
Yr 5 written exam	P	0.017*	0.177	0.148
Yr 6 written exam	r	0.136	0.088	0.178
Yr 6 written exam	P	0.027*	0.107	0.014*

r = Pearson correlation coefficient, P = 2-tailed probability where *is significant at p < 0.05 and **is significant at p < 0.01.