Selecting Anaesthetists: The Use of Psychological Tests and Structured Interviews

Autor:	P. E. Reeve, Vickers, J. N. Horton
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	Personality Tests Medical education business.industry education General Medicine Sensitivity and Specificity Interviews as Topic Anesthesiology Structured interview Medical Staff Hospital Humans Medicine Psychological testing Personnel Selection business Research Article
Zdroj:	Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 86:400-403
ISSN:	1758-1095 0141-0768
DOI:	10.1177/014107689308600710
Popis:	To test the predictive validity of a selection system for Senior House Officers (SHOs) and registrars in anaesthetics, 140 doctors short-listed from 635 applications between 1980 and 1987 were assessed by a semi-structured interview assessed and a personality questionnaire (Cattell 16PFQ-form C). The 62 doctors selected were followed up for between 3 and 8 years. Future performance was predicted from the psychological tests and by the interviewers. Academic, clinical, behavioural, and overall performance were used as criteria of outcome. Correlation coefficients between prediction and outcome measures were statistically highly significant ( P Personality measures discriminated significantly between the best and poorest performers. Interview predictions were also statistically significant ( P
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