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How can one realistically assess individuals with a pass/fail system in medical school? Time to go back to a grade system. Give the poor selection committee members a break and supply some quantitative data. The recommendations from this article lack substance of true benefit.
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Although the information provided by the author indicates that in 2017 a woman applicant was overall 15% less likely than a man to be rejected for a first choice residency, it seems she needed to find some evidence for discrimination against women. The figure of 62% of female applicants versus 72% of men for acceptance to first-choice surgical residencies is therefore presented; whether or not this was statistically significant is not stated, which is surprising from McMaster.
An analysis published in the CMAJ in 2005 [1], which looked at data for the decade 1995-2004, found that overall the odds of rejection for top-ranked specialty among men were 1.6 times greater than the corresponding odds among women. This was particularly impressive for psychiatry, emergency medicine and family medicine.[1] Baerlocher MO, Detsky AS. Are applicants to Canadian residency programs rejected because of their sex? CMAJ 2005; 173(12): 1439-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.050739
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