Student pairing grade dataset

Medical students are often paired together on clinical teams during their clerkships, but the effect of this practice on student performance and the learning environment is unknown. We examined 186 student-pairs at 3 sub-internship hospital sites of Harvard Medical School from 2013-2017 to assess whether students paired together on a medical team during their Internal Medicine sub-internship affected each other’s grade. We found no significant deviation between the expected and observed distribution of student grades (p=0.39) among 186 student pairs, suggesting that pairing had no meaningful effect on the sub-internship grade. We also saw no effect when controlling for prior internal medicine clerkship performance (p=0.53).医学生在临床轮转实习期间通常会被配对组成临床团队，但这种配对模式对学生学业表现与学习环境的影响尚不明确。我们于2013年至2017年间，在哈佛医学院（Harvard Medical School）的3个临床亚轮转医院站点，针对186组学生配对展开研究，以探究在内科临床亚轮转（Internal Medicine sub-internship）期间，被分配至同一医疗团队的学生是否会对彼此的成绩产生影响。研究结果显示，在这186组学生配对中，学生成绩的预期分布与实际观测分布之间无显著统计学差异（p=0.39），这表明配对安排对临床亚轮转成绩并无实质性影响。在校正学生此前的内科临床轮转实习表现这一变量后，我们仍未观测到显著影响（p=0.53）。