Predicting Family Medicine Specialty Certification

Predicting Family Medicine Specialty Certification Status Using Standardized Measures For a Sample of International Medical Graduates Engaged in a Practice-ready Assessment Pathway to Provisional Licensure ................................................................. André F. De Champlain, PhD; Cindy Streefkerk; Marguerite Roy, PhD; Fang Tian, PhD; Sirius Qin, MS; Carlos Brailovsky, MD, MA Ed, MCFPC A B S T R A C T : One of the routes for entry into practice for international medical graduates (IMGs) in Canada entails completing some form of an in-practice assessment program. The latter route is referred to as practice ready assessment and is the focus of the present investigation. A pan-Canadian practice ready assessment process is currently being designed to evaluate IMGs’ practice readiness. The selection of candidates who will not only have the highest likelihood of successfully completing the practice-ready assessment program but who will also attain specialty certification is of paramount importance. Our study focused on assessing how well practice-ready assessment candidates’ performance on Medical Council of Canada (MCC) examinations and four demographic variables could predict both their score and pass fail status on the College of Family Physicians’ (CFPC) certification examination. Data from 132 practice-ready assessment candidates were analyzed and indicate that MCC Qualifying Examination Part 1 scores, gender and age were significant predictors of both pass/fail status (p