Factors for success in the first year of medical school (PCEM 1) at Paris V University (France)
Flahault, A.Thomas.; Couturier, P-Louis.; Chatellier, G.
La Revue du Praticien 56(14): 1513-1520
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-2640 PMID: 17139861 Document Number: 599959
The first year of medical school in France (PCEM 1) is very competitive, as the 2004-2005 success rate at the Paris V university was below 20%. Future medical students, as well as the other actors of medical education, are therefore willing to know what are the factors for success in PCEM 1 as well as whether or not the widespread complementary classes are necessary. In order to determine these factors, a survey among the first and second year medical students (PCEM 1 and PCEM 2) was carried on. The only two significant success factors found were the good results obtained at the scientific high school graduation exam (Baccalauréat S) and doing the first year for the second time. Neither attending complementary classes nor a short time to go to the faculty seemed to higher the odds for success.