USMLE第二步CK分数和放射学实习生申请:它是否会影响实习生选择的多样性?
Usha K Trivedi1, Pierre D Maldjian2
1Zucker School of Medicine/Northwell Health at Mather Hospital Transitional Year Residency Program (U.K.T.), San Diego, California, USA.
Academic radiology
|July 6, 2023
概括
诊断放射学实习课程可能不公平地不利于代表性不足的少数民族 (URM) 申请人,因为他们依赖美国医学执照考试 (USMLE) 第二步临床知识 (CK) 成绩. 女性申请人没有受到这一评分指标的不利影响.
科学领域:
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 放射学住院招生 放射学住院招生
- 医学中的多样性 医学中的多样性
背景情况:
- 诊断放射学实习计划旨在增加实习生多样性.
- 转向通过/失败美国医学执照考试 (USMLE) 一步成绩的转变可能会导致项目强调USMLE二步临床知识 (CK) 成绩.
- 本研究研究了第二步CK评分对代表性不足的少数民族 (URM) 和女性候选人的选择的影响.
研究的目的:
- 评估USMLE Step 2 CK分数对URM和诊断放射学住院女性候选人的选择的影响.
- 为了确定数字化第二步CK分数是否会对申请人群产生不同的影响.
主要方法:
- 从美国高级全方位医学学生到放射学实习计划 (2021-2023年NRMP周期) 的应用程序的分析.
- 根据性别 (男性/女性) 和URM状态 (URM/非URM) 的受试者分类.
- 对第二阶段的CK分数进行比较,并检查截止分数的不同影响.
主要成果:
- 总共分析了1017个申请 (721个男性,296个女性;164个URM,853个非URM).
- 在男性和女性候选人之间没有发现平均第二步CK分数或切断分数的差异效应的显著差异.
- 在URM和非URM候选人之间观察到2步CK平均得分的显著八分差异 (p < 0.00011).
- 第二步CK截止分数为250排除了71%的URM候选人,而非URM候选人的比例为46%,这表明效果不同.
结论:
- 仅仅依赖USMLE Step 2 CK分数进行查放射学住院申请可能会使URM候选人处于不利地位.
- 女候选人似乎不会受到第二步CK分数的不利影响.
- 居住计划应考虑在使用数值第二步CK分数作为主要选择标准时可能存在偏见.
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