Part-wise curriculum completion rate with ‘completed’ defined as all post-tests in any part completed, self-reported number of cases involved, and mean and SD of pretest and post-test scores by each cohort
| Variable | Cohort | Overall | P | |
| 1—Late | 2—Early | |||
| Part I completion, N (%) | 0.548* | |||
| Completed | 75 (73) | 47 (77) | 122 (74) | |
| Incomplete | 28 (27) | 14 (23) | 42 (26) | |
| Part II completion, N (%) | 0.123* | |||
| Completed | 65 (63) | 31 (51) | 96 (58.5) | |
| Incomplete | 38 (37) | 30 (49) | 68 (41.5) | |
| Part III completion, N (%) | 0.012* | |||
| Completed | 63 (61) | 25 (41) | 88 (54) | |
| Incomplete | 40 (39) | 36 (59) | 76 (46) | |
| Number of cases involved | <0.001* | |||
| 0–5 | 39 (30) | 55 (76) | 94 (46.5) | |
| 6–10 | 36 (28) | 10 (14) | 46 (22.8) | |
| >11 | 55 (42) | 7 (10) | 62 (30.7) | |
| Part I test scores, M (SD) | ||||
| Pretest | 66.9 (12.6) | 62.4 (16.7) | 65.2 (14.4) | 0.091† |
| Post-test | 91.3 (9) | 92.6 (11.3) | 91.8 (9.9) | 0.478† |
| Part II test scores, M (SD) | ||||
| Pretest | 64.4 (12.9) | 62.6 (15) | 63.8 (13.6) | 0.544† |
| Post-test | 86.8 (10.2) | 91.1 (10.7) | 88.1 (10.5) | 0.059† |
| Part III test scores, M (SD) | ||||
| Pretest | 63.6 (15) | 57.9 (19.2) | 62 (16.4) | 0.140† |
| Post-test | 84.6 (14.8) | 85.6 (19.9) | 84.9 (16.3) | 0.804† |
Cohort 1—late: trainees enrolled in December, 2019; Cohort 2—early: trainees enrolled in July, 2020.
Bold values indicate statistically significant results (p<0.05).
*P is based on χ2 test.
†P is based on mixed ANOVA simple effects between-subjects factor analysis.
ANOVA, analysis of variance.