Understanding and predicting the yield in medical school admissions
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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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1989
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-198908000-00009