Adjusting medical school admission: assessing interpersonal skills using situational judgement tests
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Adjusting medical school admission: assessing interpersonal skills using situational judgement tests.
CONTEXT Today's formal medical school admission systems often include only cognitively oriented tests, although most medical school curricula emphasise both cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Situational judgement tests (SJTs) may represent an innovative approach to the formal measurement of interpersonal skills in large groups of candidates in medical school admission processes. This study e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Education
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0308-0110
DOI: 10.1111/medu.12089