Students coached for an admission test perform less well throughout a medical course

Students coached for an admission test perform less well throughout a medical course.

BACKGROUND Undertaking commercial coaching to improve one's chance of selection into medical school is widespread. Although its effect on selection test performance appears to be relatively minimal, its impact on the predictive validity of the tests is unknown. AIMS To examine whether commercial coaching for the Undergraduate Medical and Health Sciences Admissions Test (UMAT) changes its abil...

[How medical students perform academically by admission types?].

PURPOSE Despite the importance of selecting students whom are capable for medical education and to become a good doctor, not enough studies have been done in the category. This study focused on analysing the medical students' academic performance (grade point average, GPA) differences, flunk and dropout rates by admission types. METHODS From 2004 to 2010, we gathered 369 Konyang University Co...

Admission Indicators for Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Students

Background: Appropriate and timely response in urgent situations requires high knowledge, physical and mental preparedness. Since emergency medical technicians are the first professional respondents in the health system, selecting the right people among the candidates to study in this field is very important. Due to the fact that there was a no specific model in the country of Iran to propose t...

Medical school admission test: advantages for students whose parents are medical doctors?

BACKGROUND Admission candidates especially in medicine do not represent the socio-demographic proportions of the average population: children of parents with an academic background are highly overrepresented, and those with parents who are medical doctors represent quite a large and special group. At Göttingen University Medicine, a new admission procedure was established with the intention to ...

Suicide and self-assault: an introductory course for medical students.