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Relationship Between Performance on a Medical School’s Clinical Skills Assessment and USMLE Step 2 CS

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Katherine.Berg@jefferson.edu   Judith.Veloski@jefferson.edu
  Dale.Berg@jefferson.edu    Jon.Veloski@jefferson.edu

Little is known about the relationship between performance on clinical assessments during medical school and performance on similar licensing tests.  In this study correlation coefficients were computed and corrected for measurement error using data for 217 students who completed Jefferson’s comprehensive clinical assessment and took Step 2 CS.

The pattern of correlations provides information about each test’s construct validity, the potential redundancy of the tests and the use of scores on the Jefferson’s internal, comprehensive clinical skills assessment to predict performance on Step 2 CS, and implications for future studies of these relationships related to the time between the two assessments and the effect of intervening remedial programs.

To be presented at the Research in Medical Education Conference at the
2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, San Antonio, TX,
and published in Academic Medicine.