BACKGROUND: There is a lack of evidence on whether graduates from different medical schools perform differently in postgraduate examinations. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the variations in performance of UK medical graduates in Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) examination. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of performance of 1335 doctors graduating in UK medical schools who entered the Part 1 MRCOG and 822 doctors taking the Part 2 MRCOG written examination for the first time between 1998 and 2008. The main outcome measures were to evaluate medical school effects, gender effects and academic performance effect. RESULTS: Graduates of UK medical schools performed differently in the Part 1 and Part 2 written MRCOG examination. The graduates of Oxford (pass rate 82.6%), Cambridge (75%), Bristol (59.3%) and Edinburgh (57.5%) performed significantly better and the graduates of Liverpool (26.8%), Southampton (21.8%) and Wales (18.2%) performed significantly worse than the remaining cohort in the Part 1 examination. The candidates of Newcastle (88.9%), Oxford (82.4%), Cambridge (81%) and Edinburgh (78.2%) performed significantly better and the graduates of Glasgow (49.2%) and Leicester (36.2%) have significantly underperformed compared with the remaining cohort in Part 2 written examination. There was no difference in the success rates of male (47.5%) and female (42.0%) candidates in the Part 1; however, female candidates had a significantly better success rate in the Part 2 written examination than male candidates (65.6% vs 52.9%). CONCLUSION: These results show that there is variation in performance among the graduates from different medical schools in the Part 1 and Part 2 MRCOG written examination.
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of evidence on whether graduates from different medical schools perform differently in postgraduate examinations. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the variations in performance of UK medical graduates in Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) examination. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of performance of 1335 doctors graduating in UK medical schools who entered the Part 1 MRCOG and 822 doctors taking the Part 2 MRCOG written examination for the first time between 1998 and 2008. The main outcome measures were to evaluate medical school effects, gender effects and academic performance effect. RESULTS: Graduates of UK medical schools performed differently in the Part 1 and Part 2 written MRCOG examination. The graduates of Oxford (pass rate 82.6%), Cambridge (75%), Bristol (59.3%) and Edinburgh (57.5%) performed significantly better and the graduates of Liverpool (26.8%), Southampton (21.8%) and Wales (18.2%) performed significantly worse than the remaining cohort in the Part 1 examination. The candidates of Newcastle (88.9%), Oxford (82.4%), Cambridge (81%) and Edinburgh (78.2%) performed significantly better and the graduates of Glasgow (49.2%) and Leicester (36.2%) have significantly underperformed compared with the remaining cohort in Part 2 written examination. There was no difference in the success rates of male (47.5%) and female (42.0%) candidates in the Part 1; however, female candidates had a significantly better success rate in the Part 2 written examination than male candidates (65.6% vs 52.9%). CONCLUSION: These results show that there is variation in performance among the graduates from different medical schools in the Part 1 and Part 2 MRCOG written examination.
Authors: I C McManus; Andrew Christopher Harborne; Hugo Layard Horsfall; Tobin Joseph; Daniel T Smith; Tess Marshall-Andon; Ryan Samuels; Joshua William Kearsley; Nadine Abbas; Hassan Baig; Joseph Beecham; Natasha Benons; Charlie Caird; Ryan Clark; Thomas Cope; James Coultas; Luke Debenham; Sarah Douglas; Jack Eldridge; Thomas Hughes-Gooding; Agnieszka Jakubowska; Oliver Jones; Eve Lancaster; Calum MacMillan; Ross McAllister; Wassim Merzougui; Ben Phillips; Simon Phillips; Omar Risk; Adam Sage; Aisha Sooltangos; Robert Spencer; Roxanne Tajbakhsh; Oluseyi Adesalu; Ivan Aganin; Ammar Ahmed; Katherine Aiken; Alimatu-Sadia Akeredolu; Ibrahim Alam; Aamna Ali; Richard Anderson; Jia Jun Ang; Fady Sameh Anis; Sonam Aojula; Catherine Arthur; Alena Ashby; Ahmed Ashraf; Emma Aspinall; Mark Awad; Abdul-Muiz Azri Yahaya; Shreya Badhrinarayanan; Soham Bandyopadhyay; Sam Barnes; Daisy Bassey-Duke; Charlotte Boreham; Rebecca Braine; Joseph Brandreth; Zoe Carrington; Zoe Cashin; Shaunak Chatterjee; Mehar Chawla; Chung Shen Chean; Chris Clements; Richard Clough; Jessica Coulthurst; Liam Curry; Vinnie Christine Daniels; Simon Davies; Rebecca Davis; Hanelie De Waal; Nasreen Desai; Hannah Douglas; James Druce; Lady-Namera Ejamike; Meron Esere; Alex Eyre; Ibrahim Talal Fazmin; Sophia Fitzgerald-Smith; Verity Ford; Sarah Freeston; Katherine Garnett; Whitney General; Helen Gilbert; Zein Gowie; Ciaran Grafton-Clarke; Keshni Gudka; Leher Gumber; Rishi Gupta; Chris Harlow; Amy Harrington; Adele Heaney; Wing Hang Serene Ho; Lucy Holloway; Christina Hood; Eleanor Houghton; Saba Houshangi; Emma Howard; Benjamin Human; Harriet Hunter; Ifrah Hussain; Sami Hussain; Richard Thomas Jackson-Taylor; Bronwen Jacob-Ramsdale; Ryan Janjuha; Saleh Jawad; Muzzamil Jelani; David Johnston; Mike Jones; Sadhana Kalidindi; Savraj Kalsi; Asanish Kalyanasundaram; Anna Kane; Sahaj Kaur; Othman Khaled Al-Othman; Qaisar Khan; Sajan Khullar; Priscilla Kirkland; Hannah Lawrence-Smith; Charlotte Leeson; Julius Elisabeth Richard Lenaerts; Kerry Long; Simon Lubbock; Jamie Mac Donald Burrell; Rachel Maguire; Praveen Mahendran; Saad Majeed; Prabhjot Singh Malhotra; Vinay Mandagere; Angelos Mantelakis; Sophie McGovern; Anjola Mosuro; Adam Moxley; Sophie Mustoe; Sam Myers; Kiran Nadeem; Reza Nasseri; Tom Newman; Richard Nzewi; Rosalie Ogborne; Joyce Omatseye; Sophie Paddock; James Parkin; Mohit Patel; Sohini Pawar; Stuart Pearce; Samuel Penrice; Julian Purdy; Raisa Ramjan; Ratan Randhawa; Usman Rasul; Elliot Raymond-Taggert; Rebecca Razey; Carmel Razzaghi; Eimear Reel; Elliot John Revell; Joanna Rigbye; Oloruntobi Rotimi; Abdelrahman Said; Emma Sanders; Pranoy Sangal; Nora Sangvik Grandal; Aadam Shah; Rahul Atul Shah; Oliver Shotton; Daniel Sims; Katie Smart; Martha Amy Smith; Nick Smith; Aninditya Salma Sopian; Matthew South; Jessica Speller; Tom J Syer; Ngan Hong Ta; Daniel Tadross; Benjamin Thompson; Jess Trevett; Matthew Tyler; Roshan Ullah; Mrudula Utukuri; Shree Vadera; Harriet Van Den Tooren; Sara Venturini; Aradhya Vijayakumar; Melanie Vine; Zoe Wellbelove; Liora Wittner; Geoffrey Hong Kiat Yong; Farris Ziyada; Oliver Patrick Devine Journal: BMC Med Date: 2020-05-14 Impact factor: 8.775