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Preclinical progress in relation to personality and academic profiles
Author(s) -
GREEN A.,
PETERS T. J.,
WEBSTER D. J. T.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1993.tb00244.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , personality , 16pf questionnaire , psychology , big five personality traits , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , clinical psychology , medical education , medicine , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , big five personality traits and culture
Summary. One hundred and forty‐six (93%) of the University of Wales College of Medicine intake of new students completed a personality questionnaire (Cattell 16PF) on registration in October 1988. The students were divided into four groups depending on their academic progress up to and including 2nd MB BCh. Whereas the majority (73%) encountered no major examination problems, 40 (27%) did experience such difficulties, nine of them serious enough to delay graduation. Fourteen students had left the course, nine of them voluntarily. Academic progress was not significantly related to any of Cattell's personality factors, either primary or second order. Further analyses of established clusters of factors which have previously been associated with problems among students were also shown to be unrelated to the medical students' progress. A profile at entry involving previous degrees, points obtained and number of attempts at A‐levels proved to be a much better predictor of success during the preclinical period.