| Owner: |
Michael Woodson
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| Owner Email: |
mwoodson@tulane.edu
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| Paper Title: |
Evaluating Medical School Admissions Screening Measures to Promote Diversity While Relating to Future Clerkship Performance
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| Session Title: |
Admissions and Enrollment Management in Health Professions Education
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/22/2022
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| Presentation Location: |
San Diego, California
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| Descriptors: |
Admissions, Assessment, Program Evaluation
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| Methodology: |
Quantitative
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| Author(s): |
Michael Woodson, Tulane University; Ahmed Hussin; Alexander MacIntosh, Altus Assessments
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| Unit: |
Division I - Education in the Professions
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| Abstract: |
Medical education has traditionally based admissions screening on academic measures. Recently, non-academic measures have been used in admissions selection to promote diversity and graduate well-rounded physicians. This study examined standardized mean differences of two academic measures (GPA and MCAT) and one non-academic measure (an online Situational Judgement Test, Casper) between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students. Then logistic regression modeling was used to relate these screening measures to future performance during third year clerkships. The non-academic measure showed smaller effect sizes, 25-70% of academic measures, between disadvantaged and advantaged applicants. A one standard deviation increase in GPA related to a 17% increase in the probability of obtaining highest clerkship grades, followed by Casper (4%) and then MCAT (3%).
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/1887714
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