This report contains information about the general
pediatric certifying examination performance of programs accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
For each residency program listed in the following pages, the
ABP reports the cumulative pass rate for the 2001 to 2003 certifying
examinations in general pediatrics. US programs are listed first
by state abbreviation, followed by Canadian programs. Within
state or province, programs are listed alphabetically by city.
This report will be updated once a year.
What data are reported?
For each program, this report lists the number
of candidates who took the examination, the number who passed,
the number who completed training during the reported time period,
the percent that passed, and the 95% confidence interval. The
confidence interval identifies the range within which the program
pass rate would fall 95 out of 100 times if its residents were
repeatedly tested. For example, a program with a 75% pass rate
and a confidence interval of ± 15% has very high (95%) assurance
that its "true" pass rates are neither lower than 60% nor higher
than 90%. The confidence intervals must be taken into
account in interpreting these data. In making comparisons between
individual programs, the range of pass rates defined by the confidence
intervals should be compared rather than the specific percent
passing in each program.
Which residents are included in the calculation
of a program's pass rate?
Candidates are included in the computation of a
program pass rate if they meet four conditions.
First, they were first takers of the 2001, 2002,
or 2003 certifying examinations in general pediatrics (repeat
takers are excluded).
Second, they completed training within the three-year
span displayed.
Third, the final year of training is in general
pediatrics or a combined training program such as pediatrics
and internal medicine.
Fourth, candidates must have received a satisfactory
final evaluation of clinical competence from the training program.
Which programs are included in this report?
Programs are included in this report only if they
are currently accredited by the ACGME; however, pass rates are
reported only if a program has at least ten (10) residents who
meet the above criteria. Programs with fewer than ten residents
meeting these criteria are included if they were accredited from
July 1, 1998, through June 30, 2003 (i.e., long enough to produce
residents who met the training requirements for the 2001, 2002,
and 2003 examinations). For these programs only the number of
examinees are reported.
What are the limitations of the data?
Many factors influence a program's pass rate. Some
are directly attributable to the program such as curriculum,
faculty, and resident selection criteria. Others relate to examinees
and/or the examination and are beyond the control of the program.
Examinee factors include work habits during training and preparation
for the examination, while examination factors include the specific
content sampled in any year's test.
Other limitations may also affect the precision
of these data. First, the sizes of the confidence intervals vary
with the number of trainees, so caution should be exercised in
interpreting the pass rates, especially for programs with fewer
than 25 examinees in a three-year period. Second, if significant
changes in the program have occurred within the three-year period,
pass rates may not fully reflect these changes. Third, data are
presented at the title program level as listed in the ACGME Graduate
Medical Education Directory and therefore may include residents
trained in affiliated hospitals/institutions.
