Clinical experience can compensate for inferior academic achievements in an undergraduate objective structured clinical examination

Table 2 Outcome measures for study success

	Total	NC	Waiting list	Selection	Special quotas
OSCE (%)	82.9	85.63	81.34	83.88	78.98
	(7.14) [84]	(5.86) [86.67]	(7.39) [82.33]	(5.49) [84.33]	(10) [80.17]
M1 success (%)	90.81	95.58	80.11	94.86	83.56
M1 (overall)	2.04	1.67	2.31	1.98	2.34
	(0.66) [2]	(0.61) [2]	(0.67) [2]	(0.60) [2]	(0.65) [2]
M1 (written)	2.32	1.81	2.54	2.32	2.62
	(0.68) [2]	(0.64) [2]	(0.63) [3]	(0.63) [2]	(0.66) [3]
M1 (oral)	2.18	1.88	2.46	2.1	2.49
	(0.71) [2]	(0.71) [2]	(0.73) [2]	(0.65) [2]	(0.72) [2]
N [%]	1,283	182 [14.19%]	190 [14.81%]	685 [53.39%]	226 [17.61%]

Standard deviations are in parentheses, median levels are in square brackets. M1 (overall): all exams in the first two years of study. M1 (written): MC exams in the first two years of study. M1 (oral) includes the OSCE grade. M1 passing grades are 1, 2, 3,and 4. Abitur passing grades are in the range of 1.0–4.0, in steps of 0.1. M1 success: M1 obtained after passing the OSCE

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