Medical students who decompress during the M-1 year outperform those who fail and repeat it: A study of M-1 students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign 1988–2000

Table 1 Comparison of Cognitive Index Between the Decompressed and Repeating Groups

Oneway Analysis of CI By Program t-Test
	Difference	t-Test	DF	Prob>/t/
Estimate	-0.0648	-0.063	101	0.9501
Std Error	1.0331
Lower 95%	-2.1141
Upper 95%	1.9847
Means and Standard Deviations Level	Number	Mean	Std Dev	Std Err Mean	Lower 95%	Upper 95%
Decompress	59	59.0586	5.34525	0.69589	57.666	60.452
Repeat	44	59.1234	4.9646	0.74849	57.614	60.633

This table shows there was no significant difference between the decompressed group and the repeating group relative to Cognitive Index scores. (Cognitive Index data not available for 4 students in the decompressed group.)

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