Success rates on the CMQ medical clinical sciences examination: Written examination pass rates for IMGs and OSCE pass rates for IMGs vs CMGs; an independent-samples t test for the comparison of the groups’ mean scores revealed a significant difference between each pair of groups (for each year); P < .0001.
| WRITTEN EXAMINATION (IMGs)* | OSCE (IMGs) | OSCE (CMGs) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEAR | NO. OF CANDIDATES | NO. WHO PASSED | SUCCESS RATE, % | NO. OF CANDIDATES | NO. WHO PASSED | MEAN (SD) SCORES,†% | SUCCESS RATE, % | NO. OF CANDIDATES | NO. WHO PASSED | MEAN (SD) SCORES,†% | SUCCESS RATE,% |
| 2001 | 74 | 49 | 66 | 90 | 12 | 49.4 (8.2) | 13 | 106 | 105 | 67.9 (4.1) | 99 |
| 2002 | 57 | 36 | 63 | 103 | 28 | 48.3 (7.9) | 27 | 118 | 115 | 70.1 (5.4) | 97 |
| 2003 | 53 | 35 | 66 | 103 | 42 | 56.4 (8.2) | 41 | 123 | 114 | 68.2 (5.4) | 93 |
| 2004 | 54 | 37 | 69 | 120 | 52 | 56.9 (7.4) | 43 | 131 | 130 | 71.6 (5.5) | 99 |
| 2005 | 94 | 77 | 82 | 177 | 86 | 59.2 (8.5) | 49 | 139 | 136 | 71.0 (4.7) | 98 |
| 2006 | 88 | 62 | 70 | 178 | 86 | 57.6 (8.1) | 48 | 151 | 145 | 68.1 (5.2) | 96 |
| 2007 | 80 | 60 | 75 | 151 | 51 | 56.7 (7.4) | 34 | 178 | 174 | 70.2 (5.1) | 98 |
| 2008 | 48 | 37 | 77 | 134 | 44 | 56.3 (6.5) | 33 | 158 | 156 | 71.1 (5.0) | 99 |