Evaluation of Psychological Factors in Medical School Admissions Decisions.

Autor/inn/en	Jones, Bonnie J.; Borges, Nicole J.
Titel	Evaluation of Psychological Factors in Medical School Admissions Decisions.
Quelle	(2000), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Admission Criteria; College Admission; College Applicants; Grade Point Average; Grade Prediction; Higher Education; Medical Schools; Psychological Characteristics; Psychological Evaluation; Psychological Testing; Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire; Thematic Apperception Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; College applications; Studienbewerber; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Medizinische Ausbildung; Psychosoziale Beurteilung; Psychological test; psychological tests; Psychological examination; Psychologischer Test
Abstract	Medical school admissions committees are expected to select physicians with specific attributes such as intelligence, altruism, dutifulness, and compassion. Besides basing these attributes on the best professional judgment of the physicians and medical school faculty, there has been little quantitative research to determine the psychological factors that predict success as a physician, medical student, or premedical student. It was hypothesized that a combination of preadmission factors and psychological variables would predict academic performance in premedical studies better than preadmission alone. Participants (n=371) were premedical students in a combined bachelor's-M.D. degree program. Preadmission factors were obtained from student records and included high school grade-point averages (GPA), American College Test Composite scores, gender, and racial/ethnic classification. Psychological factors were measured using 40 variables from Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Lanyon's Psychological Screening Inventory, the California Occupational Preference System Inventory, and a modified Thematic Apperception Test. Results show that psychological factors improved the prediction of overall GPA and college science-mathematics GPA. Multiple correlations for the overall GPA increased from .33 using only preadmission variables to .42 when personality variables were added to the analysis. The science-mathematics GPA correlations showed a similar improvement going from .33 to .43 when the psychological factors were added. Contains 22 references. (EMS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC