Accreditations and Performance of Graduates in the National Examination of Applicants to Medical Residencies (ENARM)

Abstract

Introduction: The objective of medical school accreditations or certifications is to ensure that institutions meet quality and training standards, in order to impact the academic level and comprehensive training of students. One way to assess that this goal is achieved is with success in the National Medical Residency Candidate Exam.

Objective: The existence of a relationship between the number of accreditations of medical schools and the results obtained in the ENARM was analyzed.

Method: A retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was conducted, and data were analyzed using a Chi-square test and Student’s T-test. The results of the 68 medical schools in the country that have submitted the ENARM were compared.

Results: It was shown that those schools that had more accreditations, obtained better scores in the ENARM, 31.8% of students who study in an accredited university are selected to perform a medical specialty, these results were significant, in addition to the fact that the percentage of students accepted in the ENARM for universities with 5 accreditations was 45.8%, This figure determined that the number of accreditations also had an impact on the percentage of students selected.

Conclusions: The number of accreditations has a determining relationship with the percentage of students selected from the universities, since those with a greater number of them obtained a better score within the ENARM.