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Table 3 Distribution of core clerkship grades by race and gender. *N = 418 as some students may have multiple grades, due to there being more than one term/clerkship for which they had evaluations

From: Evaluation of bias and gender/racial concordance based on sentiment analysis of narrative evaluations of clinical clerkships using natural language processing

Overall Grade Distributions

N = 418*

Honors

Near Honors

Pass

Total

p-value

By Race (N, %)

African American

4(16%)

9(36%)

12(48%)

25

p = 0.63

Asian

49(30%)

49(30%)

67(60%)

165

White

71(36%)

59(30%)

67(34%)

197

Other

8(26%)

8(26%)

15(48%)

31

By Gender (N, %)

Female

80(34%)

70(29%)

88(37%)

238

p = 0.57

Male

52(29%)

55(31%)

73(41%)

180

Numerical Evaluation Average

(Mean(Standard Deviation) on a 7-point scale)

5.9 (1.0)

5.8 (1.0)

5.4 (1.2)

 

p < 0.001