How does a comprehensive clinical performance examination relate to ratings on the medical school student performance evaluation?
BACKGROUND
U.S. medical schools have long used the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) to represent overall student performance while comprehensive clinical performance exams (CPX) are beginning to emerge as a new standard for determining student competence.


OBJECTIVE
This study describes the association between the MSPE and CPX in their independent measures of student competence.


METHODS
We examined the relationship between CPX scores and student MSPE rating at our institution, which was completed independently of the CPX.


RESULTS
Students with higher CPX scores had better MSPE rating, but the associations are small ranging from rs=.13 for history-taking skills to rs=.31 for interpersonal skills.


CONCLUSIONS
CPX results are not strongly related to MSPE rating and, thus, they may provide information on clinical competencies that should be included in the MSPE.
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA. chenhc@peds.ucsf.edu
Huiju Carrie
HC
Chen
Arianne
A
Teherani
Patricia
P
O'Sullivan
D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States