Executive summary This work was commissioned to examine the available evidence on a)
the effectiveness of different methods used by medical schools to select students, and b) the …

Objective: To review the principles underlying medical student selection from the
perspective of the imperatives of widening access policies. Setting: A recent government …

Context In 2000 our medical school introduced a selection procedure (SP) for 10% of the
otherwise randomly selected (RS) applicants. Students with excellent high school grade …

Background/Aims The new Peninsula Medical School (PMS) admitted its first undergraduate
cohort in September 2002. Development of a new school has given rise to opportunities for …

Context Selection methods used by medical schools should reliably identify whether
candidates are likely to be successful in medical training and ultimately become competent …

Background: In defining the characteristics of medical students that society and the medical
profession find desirable, little effort has been spent assessing the relative value of the …

Background There has been little study of the role of the essay question in selection for
medical school. The purpose of this study was to obtain a better understanding of how …

Background The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the literature with respect
to stakeholder views of selection methods for medical school admissions. Methods An …

Objectives 'Wicked problems' are complex in nature, have innumerable causes associated
with multiple social environments and actors with unpredictable behaviour and outcomes …

This chapter explores why the variability in medical school selection criteria has arisen, and
provides recommendations about how to resolve this variability. An important consideration …