Differential attainment in specialty training recruitment in the UK: an observational analysis of the impact of psychometric testing assessment in Public Health postgraduate selection.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine how current psychometric testing approaches used in selection of postgraduate training in UK Public Health are associated with socioeconomic and sociocultural background of applicants (including ethnicity).

Design

Observational study using contemporaneous data collected during recruitment and psychometric test scores.

Setting

Assessment centre of UK national Public Health recruitment for postgraduate Public Health training. The assessment centre element of selection comprises three psychometric assessments: Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning, Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Assessment II and Public Health situational judgement test.

Participants

629 applicants completed the assessment centre in 2021. 219 (34.8%) were UK medical graduates,

SUBMITTER: Pinder RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10008157 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature