Can Medical School Admission Committee Members Predict Which Applicants Will Choose Primary Care Careers?
| Autor: | Gregory F. Hayden, Alfred F. Connors, John A. Owen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Matriculation Students Medical education Community service Primary care Education Secondary analysis ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION medicine Humans Career Choice Primary Health Care ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry Medical school General Medicine United States humanities Family medicine Medicine Female Residence Educational Measurement business Forecasting Specialization Graduation |
| Zdroj: | Academic Medicine. 77:344-349 |
| ISSN: | 1040-2446 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00001888-200204000-00018 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE To determine the accuracy of admission committee members' predictions regarding which applicants are likely to become generalists, and to determine which applicant characteristics are used and should be used in making these predictions. METHOD Thirteen characteristics of each applicant who entered medical school in 1990-1993 and graduated in 1994-1997 were obtained from their applications. Committee members reviewed these characteristics and assigned a probability of each applicant's choosing a generalist career. Just before their graduation, the students were surveyed to ascertain their career plans. The relationships between the characteristics and career predictions were analyzed using regression models. A secondary analysis examined the relationship between the students' stated career preferences at matriculation and career plans at graduation. RESULTS The accuracy of the committee members' predictions was low. Predictions of generalist careers were significantly related to seven applicant characteristics: rural legal residence, gender (women), lower science grades, lower MCAT science scores, lower levels of parents' education, no reported research activity, and higher levels of community service. In contrast, the students' actual generalist career plans at graduation were significantly related only to gender (women) and higher levels of community service. In the secondary analysis, applicants' stated career preferences at matriculation were the strongest predictor of their having generalist career plans at graduation. CONCLUSIONS Admission committee members often made inaccurate predictions about applicants' career plans. This may be because they based their judgments on applicants' characteristics that were not significantly related to the students' career plans at graduation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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