Curricular differences & board results.

[plutonium]

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Is there a website that ranks medical schools according to their students' performances on the Boards?

The variety of pedagogical approaches across US medical schools is broad enough for me to wonder about its affect on focused learning and Board performance.

Anyone? 😎

 

[OncoCaP]

Is there a website that ranks medical schools according to their students' performances on the Boards?

The variety of pedagogical approaches across US medical schools is broad enough for me to wonder about its affect on focused learning and Board performance.

Anyone? 😎

Not on the boards alone, but on the opinion of residency directors and other things like research dollars.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/medindex_brief.php

(Mouse-over on rankings and choose "Best Graduate Schools")

 

[incubate6times]

This thread shoes the residency scores. http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=342736

 

[arroser]

Is there a website that ranks medical schools according to their students' performances on the Boards?

The variety of pedagogical approaches across US medical schools is broad enough for me to wonder about its affect on focused learning and Board performance.

Anyone? 😎

I am very close to someone who is heavily involved in a curriculum redesign at a prominent med school. When I asked him about whether he was worried about such a drastic change affecting the students' scores, he told me that according to all the research they'd done, every school that has changed their curriculum has seen very little change in their scores. It is, according to him, mainly a question of how to keep students happiest while learning the material, since we are all capable of learning it all by ourselves anyway.

My two cents.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

I don't think that such a site exists, however, the only correlation that I've seen is that schools that allow students to postpone taking the Step 1 (like Baylor) and schools that "suggest" that students postpone taking the Step 1 because of poor academic performance and/or results on practice exams (like UTMB) tend to have higher average Step 1 scores. Obviously this conclusion of mine is not the result of any sort of stastically valid study, but common sense does suggest that the longer one has to prepare for the Step 1 exam, the better one would be expected to do.

 

[Law2Doc]

Obviously this conclusion of mine is not the result of any sort of stastically valid study, but common sense does suggest that the longer one has to prepare for the Step 1 exam, the better one would be expected to do.

While this makes intuitive sense to me as well, I would note that the intro to the First Aid book disputes this, and says "Recent studies show that a later testing date does not translate into a higher score, so avoid pushing back your test date".

 

[MadameLULU]

While this makes intuitive sense to me as well, I would note that the intro to the First Aid book disputes this, and says "Recent studies show that a later testing date does not translate into a higher score, so avoid pushing back your test date".

I think that a later test date along with experience on the wards, particularly internal medicine, may increase a test score. But then, no studies have been conducted to confirm or disproove this hypthothesis.

 

[Samoa]

I think they were talking about 1 week after classes finish vs. 4-6 weeks after classes finish, not pre- vs. post-core rotations.