Although Matt's sample of institutions is small, he looked at those that represent an enormous number of composition students.
Second, this study attempted to draw a locally representative sample of institutions at each site resulting in one of the largest samples of institutions ever examined in any single study of OAC and perhaps the most representative of institutions at the sites.
A stratified multistage cluster sampling design was used to obtain a random sample of institutions from countries and health institutions worldwide.
Subsequently, each of these groups of institutions was ranked by student enrollment, and a random sample of institutions was designated by employing a random number generator to select row numbers.
To obtain a purposive sample of institutions, one co-investigator from 10 U.S. institutions was recruited, most of whom were Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine members or had prior research experience.
Due to limited funding, a convenience sample of institutions in close proximity to Nairobi was selected for KIIs and the number of interviews was determined by saturation in data themes.
To understand the level of inclusion of health disparities as a topic in institutions that grant undergraduate degrees, we conducted a review of the courses offered in the 2013 2014 academic year in a sample of institutions randomly selected from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education data set (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2012).
In fact, since the vast majority of participants were in their first postgraduate year, and most trained at other medical schools, these ratings reflect a broad (albeit not systematic) sampling of institutions.
Although it could be argued that this correlation is non-significant and therefore should not be interpreted, the concept of significance is difficult when dealing with characteristics of institutions when those institutions are almost an entire sample of the institutions in the UK population of medical schools.
The regulator also took a sample of 92 institutions to examine the link between pay and performance.
