Evaluation of house staff candidates for program fit: a cohort-based controlled study

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Comparison on Milestones Performance Core Competencies

	CONTROL Cohort	INTERVENTION Cohort	p-value^*	Cohen’s d^**
PGY1 Mid-year Performance Evaluation	Mean ± s.d.	Mean ± s.d.
Patient Care (PC)	4.46 ± 0.80	4.71 ± 0.47	0.07	0.31
Medical Knowledge (MK)	4.55 ± 0.75	4.74 ± 0.63	0.18	0.25
Systems-Based Practice (SBP)	5.16 ± 0.82	5.14 ± 0.69	0.90	0.02
Practice-Based Learning (PBL)	5.21 ± 0.86	5.72 ± 1.01	0.01	0.59
Professionalism (PROF)	5.33 ± 0.74	5.71 ± 1.12	0.07	0.51
Interpersonal Communication (IC)	5.38 ± 0.81	5.64 ± 1.00	0.18	0.32
PGY1 Year-End Performance Evaluation
Patient Care (PC)	4.76 ± 0.68	5.15 ± 0.45	0.002*	0.57
Medical Knowledge (MK)	4.89 ± 0.74	5.10 ± 0.33	0.08	0.28
Systems-Based Practice (SBP)	5.14 ± 0.87	5.74 ± 0.76	0.001*	0.69
Practice-Based Learning (PBL)	5.25 ± 0.92	6.03 ± 0.83	< 0.001*	0.85
Professionalism (PROF)	5.32 ± 0.94	6.21 ± 1.20	< 0.001*	0.95
Interpersonal Communication (IC)	5.40 ± 0.88	6.42 ± 0.89	< 0.001*	1.16
PGY3 Mid-year Performance Evaluation
Patient Care (PC)	7.03 ± 0.67	7.54 ± 0.62	0.001*	0.76
Medical Knowledge (MK)	7.22 ± 0.84	7.62 ± 0.73	0.02	0.48
Systems-Based Practice (SBP)	7.35 ± 0.63	7.55 ± 0.55	0.13	0.32
Practice-Based Learning (PBL)	7.14 ± 0.78	7.58 ± 0.64	0.01	0.34
Professionalism (PROF)	7.34 ± 0.80	7.94 ± 0.80	0.001*	0.75
Interpersonal Communication (IC)	7.33 ± 0.75	7.82 ± 0.68	0.002*	0.65

s.d. = standard deviation
Bonferroni corrected threshold for significance p = 0.008
^*statistically significant at Bonferroni threshold
^**Cohen’s d < 0.1 (trivial effect size); Cohen’s d between 0.1–0.3 (small effect size); Cohen’s d between 0.3–0.5 (moderate effect size) Cohen’s d > 0.5 (large effect size)²⁶

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