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Article History

Received: 18 December 2024

Accepted: 17 February 2025

First Online: 25 February 2025

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was awarded on 19 Oct 2024 by the School of Medicine Ethics Committee at University of St Andrews (Reference number MD17293). Since this study does not involve patients a clinical trial number was not applicable. All students received information about the study before attempting the exam, and a consent form was required to be completed. Students’ exam responses were only used in this study if they provided consent. These provisions aligned our study with the Declaration of Helsinki. As there was a dependent relationship between the researcher (i.e. teachers/assessors on the ScotGEM programme) and the students, it was made clear that withholding consent would not disadvantage the student and that they would be able to attempt the exams as normal.Students’ individual responses were not anonymised to provide them with feedback after the conclusion of the exam; however, the identities of the students were not presented to the research team for the purposes of the post-hoc analysis. Participants were provided with their induvial exam feedback (privately) and the general findings of this study (during a whole-class briefing session). Students’ responses and were stored securely on University cloud storage (OneDrive) and only accessible by the research team.Since this study is not a clinical trial we have not reported a clinical trial number.

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: The authors declare no competing interests.