How to do itSelect medical students

BMJ 1998;317:1149-1150 ( 24 October )

Education and debate

How to do itSelect medical students

Editorial by Abbasi and Paper p 1111

David Powis, assistant dean, undergraduate education.

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia

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The analysis on p 1111 by McManus of some of the factors affecting whether a candidate is offered a place at medical schoolin the United Kingdom¹ shows clearly that selectors haven'tyet got itright.

What follows is a brief guide that might help medical schools and doctors to determine what they want from a selection procedure $---$ thatis, what knowledge, skills, and attributes need to be sought inpotential medical students, and why. This determination requiresdata, specifically, on the progress rates of medical studentsand the reasons for failure or premature withdrawal. With suchknowledge the guide may be used to show how admissions committeesshould devise and operate an appropriately objective student selectionprocedure.

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Medical school admissions procedures are often not selection procedures but an administrative exercise to limit the numberof entrants to the number of places available on the course bymeans of a . . . [Full text of this article]

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