A comparison of undergraduate outcomes for students from gateway courses and standard entry medicine courses

BMC Medical Education

Table 5 Predicting PSA z-scores from scores on entry to medical school and course type

		Unstandardized Coefficients		Stand. Coeff.	t	Sig.	95% Confidence Interval for B		sr²
		B	Std. Error	Beta	t	Sig.	Lower Bound	Upper Bound	sr²
PSA
PSA Model 1	(Constant)	−0.446	0.061		−7.282	0.000	−0.566	−0.326	0.000
	King’s	−0.291	0.049	−0.145	−5.956	0.000	−0.387	−0.195	0.012
	Southampton	−0.613	0.053	−0.283	−11.642	0.000	−0.716	−0.509	0.047
	SEMED	0.658	0.053	0.230	12.323	0.000	0.553	0.763	0.053
PSA Model 2	(Constant)	−0.264	0.078		−3.371	0.001	−0.417	− 0.110	0.000
	King’s	−0.460	0.050	−0.229	−9.170	0.000	−0.559	−0.362	0.028
	Southampton	−0.661	0.052	−0.306	−12.827	0.000	−0.763	−0.560	0.054
	SEMED	0.295	0.078	0.103	3.783	0.000	0.142	0.448	0.005
	Z UKCAT total	0.250	0.027	0.200	9.233	0.000	0.197	0.303	0.028
	Z in year of qual. A-level best 3	0.121	0.023	0.109	5.327	0.000	0.077	0.166	0.009
	A* A-level possible	0.196	0.098	0.097	1.996	0.046	0.003	0.388	0.001
	Interaction: course * Z in year of qual. A-level best 3	−0.085	0.106	−0.042	−0.803	0.422	−0.292	0.122	0.000

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