An evaluation of the performance in the UK Royal College of Anaesthetists primary examination by UK medical school and gender

Table 1 Number of graduates of each Medical School, as well as males and females, completing the primary FRCA examination and those that passed the examination first time and with the first time pass rates, with lower and upper 95% confidence intervals

Medical School	Number Completing Exam	Number Passing First Time	First Time Pass rate (%) with 95% Confidence Intervals (lower limit, upper limit)
Oxford	54	50	92.6 (83.3, 97.5)
Cambridge	64	52	81.3 (70.4, 89.3)
Nottingham	151	112	74.2 (66.8, 80.7)
Birmingham	156	114	73.1 (65.7, 79.6)
Edinburgh	151	109	72.2 (64.7, 78.9)
Newcastle Upon Tyne	111	77	69.4 (60.4, 77.4)
Bristol	139	96	69.1 (61.1, 76.3)
Wales	121	80	66.1 (57.4, 74.1)
Manchester	243	158	65.0 (58.9, 70.8)
Liverpool	111	69	62.2 (52.9, 70.8)
Leeds	118	73	61.9 (52.9, 70.3)
Southampton	104	63	60.6 (51.0, 69.6)
London	949	569	60.0 (56.8, 63.0)
Sheffield	141	81	57.5 (49.2, 65.4)
Leicester	98	54	55.1 (45.2, 64.7)
Glasgow	194	105	54.1 (47.1, 61.0)
Aberdeen	127	67	52.8 (44.1, 61.3)
Dundee	107	40	37.4 (28.7, 46.8)
Belfast	45	10	22.2 (12.0, 35.9)
Male	1774	1133	63.9 (61.6, 66.1)*
Female	1410	846	60.0 (57.4, 62.5)*
All	3184	1979	62.2 (60.5, 63.8)

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