Comparison of UMAT scores and GPA in prediction of performance in medical school: a national study

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Comparison of UMAT scores and GPA in prediction of performance in medical school: a national study

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Context  Medical schools continue to seek robust ways to select students with the greatest aptitude for medical education, training and practice. Tests of general cognition are used in combination with markers of prior academic achievement and other tools, although their predictive validity is unknown. This study compared the predictive validity of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT), the admission grade point average (GPA), and a combination of both, on outco...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2012

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Poole, Phillippa / Shulruf, Boaz / Rudland, J / Wilkinson, T

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/24251

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Aptitude Tests / College Admission Test / Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Educational Measurement / Female / Forecasting / Humans / Male / New Zealand / Reproducibility of Results / School Admission Criteria / Schools, Medical / Young Adult

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