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ArticleBMC medical education2024

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire" - the UKFPO's recent changes are a short-sighted response to a complicated problem.

Oliver Skan, Kiran Saini, Edward Armstrong

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Article in BMC medical education, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Oliver SkanLondon North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK. Oliver.skan@nhs.net.
Kiran SainiOxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, England.
Edward ArmstrongOxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, England.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In June 2023, the UK Foundation Programme Office announced that the previous method of ranking students based on their educational performance measure and situational judgement test performance would be superseded by a preferencing algorithm that disregards academic merit. We outline our strong objections to this policy.

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Educational MeasurementAcademic PerformanceAlgorithmsHumansUnited KingdomFoundation program applicationsMedical school examinations

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PMID38902644
PMCPMC11191170

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