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

Although the use of simulation as a methodology for learning continues to grow at a rapid
pace throughout all of the healthcare professions and disciplines, research in this field is still …

Assessment for selection in medicine and the health professions should follow the same
quality assurance processes as in-course assessment. The literature on selection is limited …

Purpose United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores are frequently used
by residency program directors when evaluating applicants. The objectives of this report are …

Assessing applicants' personal competencies in the admission process has proven difficult
because there is not an agreed-on set of personal competencies for entering medical …

Context Today's formal medical school admission systems often include only cognitively
oriented tests, although most medical school curricula emphasise both cognitive and non …

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 …

We study how patient-regarding altruism is formed by medical education. We elicit and
structurally estimate altruistic preferences using experimental data from a large sample of …

Objectives Increasing numbers of educational institutions in the medical field choose to
replace their conventional admissions interviews with a multiple mini‐interview (MMI) format …

Other-regarding motivation is a fundamental determinant of public service provision. In
health care, one example is physicians who act benevolently towards their patients when …