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Increasingly, medical schools are using non-academic characteristics in admissions towards more holistic decision making. Casper, a widely used SJT, has demonstrated reliability, however, little is known regarding its relationship with in-program non-academic measures or sociodemographic variables. Preliminary results suggest that Casper is significantly associated with OSCE, however, other academic and non-academic metrics only accounted for minimal total variance of in-program measures.

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Is the Casper test a good predictor of medical student outcomes?

Increasingly, medical schools are using non-academic characteristics in admissions towards more holistic decision making. Casper, a widely used SJT, has demonstrated reliability, however, little is known regarding its relationship with in-program non-academic measures or sociodemographic variables. This study aims to understand the associations between non-academic performance at admissions and in-program measures.

Graduating classes of 2020 and 2021 from University of Ottawa MD student data were retrospectively analyzed. Admissions data including demographics, interview score, Casper, and wGPA were compared to course grades, clerkship ratings and OSCE scores collected during training. Analysis included Independent samples t-tests, mon-parametric regressions, Spearman's rho, and multiple regression.

Over the three graduation classes, the total number of students was (N=496). Of those, 55% were female, 67% had a bachelors, and the average age at the time of graduation was 22.4. There was no significant gender (p = .53 and .19), age (p = .41 and .68), language stream (p = .18 and .21) differences in Casper scores for both Classes of 2020 (p = .19 to .68) and 2021. Casper was significantly associated with professional and skill development OSCE score (b = 0.53, p = .02) for Class of 2020. The multiple regressions with GPA and Casper showed minimal total variance accounted for across clerkship scores (adjusted R2 = 0.03, p = .11; adjusted R2 = 0.08, p = .001).

Preliminary results suggest that Casper is significantly associated with OSCE, however, other academic and non-academic metrics only accounted for minimal total variance of in-program measures. Results from further analyses related to range restriction of scores and missing data will be reported.

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Undergraduate medical education

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