Do students from public schools fare better in medical school than their colleagues from private schools? If so, what can we learn from this?

Table 5 Coefficients (simple and adjusted) from linear regression of mean UC scores from 1st year of medical school

	Simple coefficients		Adjusted^a coefficients
	β	p	β	p
Secondary school type
Public	ref		ref
Private	−0.550	< 0.001	−0.459	< 0.001
Secondary school with high grade inflation?
No	ref		ref
Yes	−0.491	< 0.001	− 0.246	0.003
Student gender
Male	ref		ref
Female	−0.010	0.867	−0.042	0.058

^aadjusted for type of secondary school (private vs. public), high grade inflation and student gender

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