In this case, the dichotomisation of ethnicity into non-white/white, to preserve anonymity, 32 meant that few conclusions could be drawn regarding the potential effect of this variable on ARCP performance; generally, this factor served as a proxy for international medical graduates status.
Participants' postcourse stories of diabetes-related interactions were examined to gain an insight into the metanarratives they were encountering and the cultural expectations with which they had to live; in other words, to discover the ways healthcare professionals and laypeople responded to graduates' status and knowledge in their new, post-DAFNE patient role.
It shows that, following adjustment for course type, year of graduation, graduate status and baseline (Year 1) performance, that doing an intercalated BSc led to a statistically significant improvement in subsequent exam performance, as measured by the Year 5 result.
The effects of intercalating on final year exam results, Foundation Programme score, application form score (from white-space questions), quartile rank score, and success with securing Foundation School of choice were assessed using linear and ordered logistic regression models, adjusted for course type, year of graduation, graduate status and baseline (Year 1) performance.
At the physician level, the models included primary care physician age, sex, years since graduation, and Canadian graduate status.
The model was adjusted for baseline Year 1 results, graduate status, year of graduation, and course type.
This was again adjusted for baseline (Year 1) exam results, graduate status, year of graduation, and course type.
Year 5 result was the primary outcome and the model was adjusted for baseline (Year 1) exam results, graduate status, year of graduation, and course type.
Examining two cohorts for which data were available, Table 3 ('Overall Foundation Programme' column) shows that doing an intercalated BSc led to a higher overall score on the foundation programme application (P < 0.00001), following adjustment for baseline (Year 1) results, graduate status, year of graduation, and course type.
REBECCA MEAD: Hey, Ike, congratulations on your soon-to-graduate status.
However, assured by his tutor of his certain prospect of a first, the Foreign Office pressed for him to join in 1948, so that he never took his degree (his non-graduate status remaining a source of family amusement ever after).
