Retrospective analysis reveals maternal complication rates reliably rank obstetrical residency programs, indicating clinical outcomes provide distinct quality metrics from licensing exam scores.
Obstetrics and gynecology training programs can be ranked by the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients. These rankings are stable across individual types of complications and are not associated with residents' licensing examination scores.
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