Differences in Narrative Language in Evaluations of Medical Students by Gender and Under-represented Minority Status

Rojek, Alexandra E.; Khanna, Raman; Yim, Joanne W. L.; Gardner, Rebekah; Lisker, Sarah; Hauer, Karen E.; Lucey, Catherine R.; Sarkar, Urmimala

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“…Differences in the assessment of men and women have been documented within undergraduate and graduate medical education. [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Most notably and recently, Dayal et al 20 studied the effect of gender on milestone assessments in EM residency training programs. Dayal and colleagues found that at the beginning of training, milestone assessments tend to be similar between men and women, with women achieving higher mean scores in many categories.…”

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“…At the end of training, however, men receive higher milestone assessments. 20 Our study was designed to observe if any gender differences exist at the earliest phase of EM training, the EM clerkship. We found that, from a large pool Figure 2.…”

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“…20 Men may perform better during their final year of residency on milestone assessments. 20 It is possible that qualities important for the success of a senior resident are different than the qualities important for success of a fourth-year medical student. It is possible that a person's gender may offer qualities that predispose them to certain skills and attitudes.…”

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“…[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] For example, men in EM residencies achieve higher milestone assessments than women at graduation. 20 With the revised format of the SLOE 2 and the tendency for more SLOEs to be completed by groups of EM residency and clerkship leaders, 9,15 rather than individual faculty, we sought to determine if there is any difference in the SLOE global assessment of female versus male applicants. A recent study by Li and colleagues 30 did not find any gender bias associated with the words used to evaluate female applicants; however, Li et al did not study quantitative findings from SLOE rankings.…”

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Does Applicant Gender Have an Effect on Standardized Letters of Evaluation Obtained During Medical Student Emergency Medicine Rotations?

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Clark

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Background: The standardized letter of evaluation (SLOE) in emergency medicine (EM) is one of the most important items in a student's application to EM residency and replaces narrative letters of recommendation. The SLOE ranks students into quantile categories in comparison to their peers for overall performance during an EM clerkship and for their expected rank list position. Gender differences exist in several assessment methods in undergraduate and graduate medical education. No authors have recently studied whether there are differences in the global assessment of men and women on the SLOE.Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine if there is an effect of student gender on the outcome of a SLOE. Methods:This was a retrospective observational study examining SLOEs from applications to a large urban, academic EM residency program from 2015 to 2016. Composite scores (CSs), comparative rank scores (CRSs), and rank list position scores (RLPSs) on the SLOE were compared for female and male applicants using Mann-Whitney U-test.Results: From a total 1,408 applications, 1,038 applicants met inclusion criteria (74%). We analyzed 2,092 SLOEs from these applications. Female applicants were found to have slightly lower and thus better CRSs, RLPSs, and CSs than men. The mean CRS for women was 2.27 and 2.45 for men (p < 0.001); RLPS for women was 2.32 and 2.52 for men (p < 0.001) and CS was 4.59 for women and 4.97 for men (p < 0.001).Conclusions: Female applicants have somewhat better performance on the EM SLOE than their male counterparts.From the

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“…Rojek et al 8 provide further insight from the medical student perspective identifying gender-based differences in the JGIM Published online April 16, 2019 narrative language on assessments. Female learners were more likely to be characterized by personal attributes while male learners were more likely to be characterized by competencybased language.…”

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Transformation and Innovation at the Nexus of Health Systems and Medical Education

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Aagaard

2019

J GEN INTERN MED

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2020

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Differences in Narrative Language in Evaluations of Medical Students by Gender and Under-represented Minority Status

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Does Applicant Gender Have an Effect on Standardized Letters of Evaluation Obtained During Medical Student Emergency Medicine Rotations?

Does Applicant Gender Have an Effect on Standardized Letters of Evaluation Obtained During Medical Student Emergency Medicine Rotations?

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