Table 1.  Item and participant frequencies, scale internal consistency estimates, and zero order correlations.

Year

NMSK sports items

Alpha NMSK

General FM items

Alpha General family

N
Fellows

N Non-fellows

Correlation of NMSK score and fellowship

1998

13

.48

173

.80

1 710

8 896

.07

1999

14

.15

151

.74

1 687

8 828

.03

2000

12

.27

184

.79

1 661

8 715

-.01

2001

3

.13

180

.82

1 649

8 525

.03

2003

2

.05

199

.81

1 631

8 200

.03
NMSK = non-musculoskeletal; FM= Family Medicine; N = number of participants; 2002 data were not used because there were no NMSK items in the exam; Fellowship was score 1 = fellowship, 0 = no fellowship.