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Selecting medical students
Author(s) -
Powis David A
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01644.x
Subject(s) - newcastle upon tyne , citation , newcastle disease , psychology , library science , medicine , art , computer science , art history , virus , virology
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 17 March 2008 188 6 323-324 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2008 www.mja.com.au Editorials status quo alluded to was selection of medical stud the basis of academic marks obtained in high school examinations. Fifteen years later, John Best, in one articles for the J urnal, acknowledged that to be a require skills and personal qualities additional aptitude, and wrote: The leap of logic that equates high marks in an exa Medical students should be selected on criteria that include desirable personal qualities, using procedures with demonstrated reliability and validity