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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

From: Are different medical school admission tests associated with the outcomes of a simulation-based OSCE?

  

Gender

Age (in years)

GPA

Admission Quota

N (%)

f / m

M ± SD

M ± SD

GPA-only

28 (19.2 %)

22 / 6

24.43 ± 2.64

1.01 ± 0.04***

HAM-Nat

49 (33.6 %)

23 / 26

23.96 ± 1.62

1.40 ± 0.22*

HAM-Int

45 (30.8 %)

32 / 13

23.93 ± 1.47

1.51 ± 0.20*

Waiting List

24 (16.4 %)

15 / 9

32.83 ± 4.58***

2.85 ± 0.41***

  1. German GPA scores are negatively polarized, 1.0 being the best, 4.0 being the lowest grade
  2. female, male
  3. Age: *** p < .001: Waiting List versus GPA-only, HAM-Nat, and HAM-Int
  4. GPA: *** p < .001: Waiting List versus GPA-only, HAM-Nat, and HAM-Int; GPA-only versus HAM-Nat, HAM-Int and Waiting List; * p = .002: HAM-Nat vs. HAM-Int