title: Predicting medical school and internship success: does the quality of the research and clinical experience matter?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article explores specific aspects of self-reported clinical and research experience and their relationship to performance in medical training.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at the Uniformed Services University. The American Medical College Application Service application was used to discern students' self-reported clinical and research experience. Two authors applied a classification scheme for clinical and research experience to the self-reported experiences. Study outcomes included medical school grade point average (GPA), U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores, and intern expertise and professionalism scores. A linear regression analysis was conducted for each outcome while controlling for prematriculation GPA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data were retrieved on 1,020 matriculants. There were several statistically significant but small differences across outcomes when comparing the various categories of clinical experience with no clinical experience. The technician-level experience group had a decrease of 0.1 in cumulative GPA in comparison to students without self-reported clinical experience (p = 0.004). This group also performed 5 points lower on the USMLE Step 2 than students who did not report clinical experience (p = 0.013). The various levels of self-reported research experience were unrelated to success in medical school and graduate medical education.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings indicate that self-reported technician-level clinical experience is related to a small reduction in typically reported outcomes in medical school.
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Nathalie D
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authors: Paolino
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Anthony R
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authors: Artino
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Aaron
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authors: Saguil
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Ting
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authors: Dong
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Steven J
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authors: Durning
authors: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Kent J
authors: KJ
authors: DeZee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000592:standards*; D012106:Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical; D014481:United States