Student pairing grade dataset

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).