Table 2 Mean CE1 scores by year of testing and region of undergraduate medical education

REGION	N	MEAN (SD) SCORE^*
2007
AU, NZ, SA, UK, and IRL	8	3.62 (0.37)
South America	16	3.08 (0.60)
Western Europe	2	3.08 (0.48)
Caribbean	18	3.04 (0.50)
Southeast Asia	141	2.98 (0.44)
Western Pacific	14	2.98 (0.37)
Eastern Europe	76	2.92 (0.42)
Eastern Mediterranean	129	2.91 (0.41)
Africa	25	2.69 (0.39)
North America	0	NA
Total	429	2.95 (0.45)
Missing	1	NA
2008
AU, NZ, SA, UK, and IRL	8	3.53 (0.32)
Caribbean	8	2.99 (0.49)
South America	17	2.92 (0.54)
Western Europe	9	2.84 (0.43)
Southeast Asia	163	2.84 (0.40)
Eastern Mediterranean	156	2.83 (0.40)
Eastern Europe	60	2.82 (0.38)
Western Pacific	24	2.78 (0.37)
Africa	31	2.77 (0.33)
North America	0	NA
Total	476	2.84 (0.39)
Missing	4	NA
2009
AU, NZ, SA, UK, and IRL	9	3.10 (0.32)
South America	16	2.97 (0.34)
Western Europe	1	2.92 (NA)
Eastern Europe	64	2.84 (0.40)
Southeast Asia	166	2.81 (0.37)
Caribbean	14	2.80 (0.59)
Eastern Mediterranean	169	2.75 (0.37)
Africa	20	2.67 (0.35)
Western Pacific	12	2.56 (0.28)
North America	1	2.51 (NA)
Total	472	2.79 (0.38)

AU—Australia, CE1—General Comprehensive Clinical Examination 1, IRL—Ireland, NA—not applicable, NZ—New Zealand, SA—South Africa, UK—United Kingdom.
↵* Candidates whose undergraduate education was in the English-speaking countries, South America, and Eastern Europe achieved significantly higher scores on the CE1 according to ANOVA (P < .05).