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 …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to conduct a scoping review of the literature and to
categorically map a 15‐year trajectory of US undergraduate medical education rationales for …

Background Medical students have historically largely come from more affluent parts of
society, leading many countries to seek to broaden access to medical careers on the …

Background Reducing stigma associated with mental illness is an important aim of medical
education, yet evidence indicates that medical students' attitudes toward patients with …

Context Widening access promotes student diversity and the appropriate representation of
all demographic groups. This study aims to examine diversity‐related benefits of the use of …

Context Since the 1970s, the UK medical student body has become increasingly diverse in
terms of gender, ethnicity and age, but not in socio‐economic background. This variance …

Background Medical students often struggle to engage in extra-curricular research and
audit. The Student Audit and Research in Surgery (STARSurg) network is a novel student …

Objectives Differential attainment in school examinations is one of the barriers to increasing
student diversity in medicine. However, studies on the predictive validity of prior academic …

Objective To determine whether the use of the UK clinical aptitude test (UKCAT) in the
medical schools admissions process reduces the relative disadvantage encountered by …

Introduction Medical admissions must balance two potentially competing missions: to select
those who will be successful medical students and clinicians and to increase the diversity of …