Predictive factors of success at the French National Ranking Examination (NRE): a retrospective study of the student performance from a French medical school

Table 4 Multivariate analysis of the predictive factors associated with a better rank of the Reims students at 2015 NRE

Variables	β ± SE	IC 95%	p
Age	−225 ± 114 places	[−450; 0,28]	0.0503
Repeated the first year^a	−1410 ± 286 places	[− 1976; − 844]	< 0.0001
Repetition during university course^1,a	−1092 ± 385 places	[− 1853; − 331]	0.005
Enrolled in free training conferences organized by the author	− 281 ± 303 places	[− 880; 317]	0.35
Paid private training conferences (5th year)^a	+ 44 ± 354 places	[−880; 317]	0.9
Paid private training conferences (6th year)^a	− 249 ± 373 places	[− 987; 489]	0.5
Hermès conference²	+ 148 ± 348 places	[− 539; 836]	0.50
White NRE in 5th year^a	− 371 ± 410 places	[− 1184; 442]	0.36
White NRE in 6th year^a	− 850 ± 536 places	[− 1909; 210]	0.12
Revue du Praticien November 2014^3,a	+ 869 ± 425 places	[27; 1711]	0.04
Revue du Praticien March 2015^3,a	+ 61 ± 430 places	[− 790; 912]	0.88
Hippocrate mars 2015^4,c	+ 613 ± 297 places	[26; 1200]	0.04
Attendance of hospital internship (6th year)^a	−706 ± 298 places	[− 1297; − 116]	0.02
Intrinsic motivation^10,a
Highly motivated	+ 3327 ± 527 places	[2284; 4370]	< 0.0001
Moderately motivated	+ 1905 ± 474 places	[968; 2842]	< 0.0001
Not motivated	reference
Targeted city of residency^12,a	−255 ± 281 places	[− 810; 300]	0.36

¹First and sixth years excluded. ²Hermès conference, SASU, 11 rue de la vistule, Paris. ³ECN-blanches la Revue du Praticien conference, Global Média Santé, 314, Bureau de la Colline, Saint-Cloud Cedex. ⁴Hippocrate-ECN conference, Faculté Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris. ^aUnknown: n = 80 (33%); ^bUnknown: n = 50 (21%); ^cUnknown: n = 59 (25%)
boldface entries are statistically significant with a p < 0.05

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