Table 1 The average number of submissions for publication by residents, their overall percentile on the most recent OKAP examination, the percentage of respondents who applied for fellowship, the percentage of applicants matching and where they ranked the matching program, and the percentages of applicants who applied because of great interest, desire to enhance employment prospects and desire to obtain more training in order to be comfortable entering practice (multiple responses were permitted) for clinic categories 0 (no resident-hosted clinic), 1 (resident-hosted clinic where faculty must discuss and/or see every patient encountered) and 2 (resident-hosted clinic where faculty see patients at the residents’ discretion and the faculty member may or may not be on-site)
Clinic Category | Average # submissions for publication (95% CI) | Percentile OKAP (95% CI) | % Applied for fellowship (95% CI) | % Accepted for fellowship (95% CI) | Average Rank of matched program (95% CI) | % Great interest in specialty (95% CI) | % Enhance employment prospects (95% CI) | % Not yet comfortable entering practice (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 (no clinic) | 3.5 (2.5–4.5) | 62 (53–71) | 67 (51–79) | 92 (76–98) | 3rd (1–4) | 100 (87–100) | 31 (50–84) | 8 (2–24) |
1 (must discuss) | 3.5 (2.0–5.0) | 51 (40–62) | 62 (44–77) | 100 (82–100) | 3rd (1–4) | 100 (82–100) | 39 (20–61) | 6 (1–25) |
2 (resident discretion) | 5.1 (3.2–6.9) | 64 (56–71) | 75 (61–85) | 100 (90–100) | 2nd (1–3) | 89 (75–96) | 42 (27–58) | 3 (0.5–14) |
p-value | 0.23 | 0.12 | 0.46 | 0.12 | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.69 | 0.81 |
Test used to calculate P-value | ANOVA | ANOVA | Chi-square | Chi-square | ANOVA | Fisher exact | Fisher exact | Fisher exact |