Making medical student course evaluations meaningful: implementation of an intensive course review protocol

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Median ratings for courses by academic year and mann whitney u tests comparing academic years to the pre-intensive course review period^a

Academic Year	Enrolled Pre-clerkship students^c	Median rating (interquartile range)	P-value	Effect size (η²)	U score	Z score	R score
2006/07^b	120	3.50 (3.20, 4.00)	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	120	3.50 (3.30, 3.70)	0.614	NS	NS	NS	NS
2008/09	124	4.10 (3.80, 4.30)	<0.001	0.222	200.0	−3.705	0.676
2009/10	128	4.15 (3.70, 4.30)	0.001	0.246	221.5	−3.386	0.618
2010/11	128	4.00 (3.80, 4.20)	0.004	0.283	255.0	−2.890	0.528

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