Current medical student interviewers add data to the evaluation of medical school applicants

dc.creator	Christina J. Gutowski
dc.creator	Nikhil G. Thaker
dc.creator	George Heinrich
dc.creator	Barbara Fadem
dc.date	2010-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:37:54Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:37:54Z
dc.identifier	10.3402/meo.v15i0.5245
dc.identifier	1087-2981
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/7f6e03d8f4de499c8e5c290b992bc18b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/31430
dc.description	Background: There is evidence that the addition of current medical student interviewers (CMSI) to faculty interviewers (FI) is valuable to the medical school admissions process. This study provides objective data about the contribution of CMSI to the admissions process. Method: Thirty-six applicants to a 4-year medical school program were interviewed by both CMSI and FI, and the evaluations completed by the two groups of interviewers were compared. Both FI and CMSI assessed each applicant's motivation, medical experiences, personality, communication skills, and interests outside of the medical field, and provided a numerical score for each applicant on an evaluation form. Both objective and subjective data were then extracted from the evaluation forms, and paired t-test and rank order tests were used for statistical analysis. Results: When compared with FI, CMSI wrote two to three times more words on the applicants’ motivation, personality, communication skills, interests, and overall evaluation sections (p<0.001) and provided about 60% more examples on the motivation section (p=0.0011) and communication skills section (p=0.0035). In contrast, FI and CMSI provided similar numbers of negative examples in these and in the personality section and equivalent overall numerical evaluation scores. Conclusions: These results indicate that when compared with FI, CMSI give equivalent overall evaluation scores to medical school candidates but provide additional potentially useful information particularly in the areas of motivation and communication skills to committees assigned the task of selecting students to be admitted to medical school.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Co-Action
dc.relation	http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/view/5245/pdf_5
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1087-2981
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Medical Education Online, Vol 15, Iss 0, Pp 1-4 (2010)
dc.subject	medical student interviewers
dc.subject	faculty interviewers
dc.subject	medical school
dc.subject	admissions
dc.subject	applicants
dc.subject	interviews
dc.subject	motivation
dc.subject	communication skills
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	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Health 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	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	R
dc.subject	DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	R
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	R
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	R
dc.title	Current medical student interviewers add data to the evaluation of medical school applicants
dc.type	article