“…Pre admission variables with significant association have included overall scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), 1,3 scores on the biologic science 2,11 and verbal reasoning 6 section of the MCAT, undergraduate Grade Point Average (GPA), 1 science GPA, 2 multiple mini interview scores, 4 race, 2 age, 2,12 gender, 6,12 and college selectivity. 2 Post admission variables have included performance in individual first year courses, 7,9 overall performance in the first 1,6,7,9 and second 1,6 years of undergraduate medical programs, clerkship in-training evaluation reports 10 , national board of medical examiners (NBME) scores, 5 block scores, 5 clinical performance, 1,8 and performance on a final Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). 6 Unfortunately, the majority of these studies attempted to predict performance on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) [1][2][3]7,8,13,14 and not the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE) Part I.…”