Selecting medical students at the University of Witten/Herdecke: Part I: Evaluation of inter-rater-reliability in the interview selection process

dc.creator	Ostermann, Thomas
dc.creator	Vermaasen, Wilhelm
dc.creator	Matthiessen, Peter F.
dc.date	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:08:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:08:07Z
dc.identifier	1860-7446
dc.identifier	1860-3572
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f114ac9aa63345efaa52d29d5df2b733
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11759
dc.description	Background: The University of Witten/Herdecke was founded in 1983 as the first private university in Germany to teach medicine. The University is not part of the centralized state system of medical placement distribution but rather has its own concept and procedure relating to its choice of students. In order to evaluate reliability and validity of the process of selecting medical students at the University of Witten/Herdecke, the first step was to analyse the interview selection process.Material and methods: The basic foundation of this examination were the results of the interview period of of the admission process from 1999 to 2000. In order to test inter-rater-reliability of the interviewers, a modified Cohen Kappa coefficient for multiple nominal scaled variables was used with regards to the group as a whole and also individually for the subgroups gender, admission year, age-groups and A Level results.Results: With Kappa-values ranging from 0.70 in 2000 to 0.88 in 1999 the reliability of the interviewer-process is obvious. However there are clear differences in the two years examined with regards to agreement in the decisions of interviewers. In the subgroup analysis with regards to gender no differences in the Kappa values were seen (male: 0,81; female: 0.8). Slightly less agreement can be seen with regards to subgroup analyses of A Level results of applicants ranging from 0.76 to 0.82.Discussion: In summary, this study shows that the application selection procedure for medicine at the medical faculty of the University of Witten/Herdecke is a reliable instrument with a high inter-rater reliability. This remains the case even though the interviewers do not seem to have standardized decision making criteria. Whether individual criteria/constellations were decisive with regards to the decision making process will be the subject of a further study.
dc.publisher	German Medical Science, Düsseldorf
dc.relation	http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2005-22/zma000013.shtml
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1860-7446
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1860-3572
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung, Vol 22, Iss 1, p Doc13 (2005)
dc.subject	admission interviews
dc.subject	inter-rater reliability
dc.subject	selection
dc.subject	medical students
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.title	Selecting medical students at the University of Witten/Herdecke: Part I: Evaluation of inter-rater-reliability in the interview selection process
dc.type	article