Motivation, medical school admissions, and student performance

A two factor model of performance approach goals in student motivation for starting medical school

This study explores what motivates a student to enter medical school by first measuring students’ strength of motivation and then by looking for relationships between motivation and career-related values and approaches to learning. Validated and reliable questionnaires were used to obtain data. This study found no differences in strength of motivation based on sex, nationality or age, but it di...

Groningen Motivation , learning strategies , participation and medical school performance

Motivation, learning strategies, participation and medical school performance.

CONTEXT Medical schools wish to better understand why some students excel academically and others have difficulty in passing medical courses. Components of self-regulated learning (SRL), such as motivational beliefs and learning strategies, as well as participation in scheduled learning activities, have been found to relate to student performance. Although participation may be a form of SRL, li...

Speed Dating for Medical School Admissions

Although medical schools take every precaution in selecting benevolent individuals to be trained as physicians, an international study has revealed that 5% of doctors worldwide have recurrent issues that warrant disciplinary action by medical boards. These issues include violations of professionalism, unethical behavior, negligence, and in some cases criminal intent, reflective of deficiencies ...

The changing dynamic of medical school admissions.

Old-school pedagogues must be cringing. The Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and panel interviews dispatched to the dustbins of medical school history? Spaces set aside for those trained in the humanities? Have the caretakers of all that is good and time-honoured in the hallowed halls of medical schools gone entirely mad? There is little doubt that the medical school admissions landscape ...