An Assessment of Cotrans Student Performance

Abstract

An evaluation of Cotrans students at New York Medical College (NYMC) indicated that while their NBME Part I scores in Psychiatry were significantly lower than the performance of NYMC’s own students and lower than the national mean, their performance in their psychiatric clinical clerkships, based on faculty evaluations, were indistinguishable from NYMC students; their performance in the NBME Part II in Psychiatry while lower than NYMC’s own students was above the national mean. Although there has been concern about the capabilities and background of Cotrans students, this evaluation suggests that with a good didactic and clinical training program Cotrans students can attain a level of performance equal to that of medical students educated entirely in this country.