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2-3 . 2017

Unified state examination as a predictor of academic performance in medical university

AbstractCurrently the results of the unified state examination (USE) became the only criteria to be admitted to the majority of medical universities in Russia. However, this fact is still causing hot debates among medical education professionals concerning appropriateness of professional orientation and objective knowledge assessment of applicants as theyguarantee students' subsequent successful training at medical university. Moreover, an obvious trend to encourage additional financial resources from the Federal state budget and Sverdlovsk region budget for the target admission of applicants to the Ural State Medical University (USMU) makes us pay attention to the rating selection of future medical students. Recently we foundthe decrease of the average USE scoreof applicants to the general medicine faculty of USMU. The aim of research was to study association between USE scores and medical students' academic performance in the course of human anatomy.We analyzed data on academic performance of the students from general medicine faculty according to the rating system in the course ofhuman anatomy during 2014—2017 (total 716 student ratings) and compared their results to their USE score at admission to USMU. All students were divided into four groupsaccording to the source of financing the occupied training place at USMU. The comparable data were analyzed using standard statistical methods with rank correlation. The vast majority of compared groups showed positive correlation of the average strength with the correlation coefficient of 0.24 to 0.42. Thus, our research showed the association between USE scores and subsequent academic performance of medical students in the course of human anatomy..

Keywords:• unified state examination • prognostic value • rank correlation • students' rating system • human anatomy • medical student

Meditsinskoe obrazovanie i professional’noe razvitie [Medical Education and Professional Development]. 2017; (2-3): 34–41.
DOI: 10.24411/2220-8453-2017-00004


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CHIEF EDITOR
CHIEF EDITOR
Balkizov Zalim Zamirovich
Secretary General of the Russian Society of Medical Education Specialists, Director of the Institute of Training of Medical Education Specialists of the Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, 125993, Moscow, Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Vocational Education and Educational Technologies of the N.I. Pirogov RNIMU of the MOH of Russia, CEO of GEOTAR-Med, Advisor President of the National Medical Chamber, Moscow, Russian Federation

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