The predictive validity of admission criteria for the results of clinical competency assessment with an emphasis on family medicine in the fifth year of medical education: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In many countries, the number of applicants to medical schools exceeds the number of available places. This offers the need, as well as the opportunity to medical schools to select those applicants most suitable for later work as a doctor. However, there is no generally accepted definition of a 'good doctor'. Clinical competencies may serve as surrogates. The aim of this study was to compare medical students in Germany selected based either on their pre-university grade point average alone or based on the result of a university-specific selection procedure regarding their clinical competencies with an emphasis on family medicine in the later years of training.

Methods

We used the 'Allgemeinarztbarometer Ausbildung' (Undergraduate Family Medicine Barometer), an ins

SUBMITTER: Kotter T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9003966 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature