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V Calkins

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PubMed1984

Graduate and mature entrants to medicine: changes in career intentions.

Fifty-nine students who had previously taken degrees or commenced careers in subjects other than medicine entered the Cambridge Clinical Course in its first 5 years of operation, commencing in 1976. A questionnaire was used to ascertain their original career plans when entering medical education, their career plans in 1981, and the reasons for any changes. Graduates originally planning careers in general practice and teaching or research maintained their intentions, but some of those who had favoured hospital clinical work changed their minds in favour of general practice. General practice was also the most common choice amongst those students who were earlier unsure as to what branch of medicine they would enter. Of students changing their career intentions, half indicated that disenchantment with hospital medicine was a prime reason for the change.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1981

Personal characteristics and achievements of medical students from urban and nonurban areas.

To meet the physician shortage in rural America, medical schools have attempted to enroll more students from farms and small towns. How successful these schools have been in selecting rural students who perform satisfactorily as undergraduates has rarely been documented. Accordingly, this research compares the performance and the predictors of performance of urban and nonurban students in a B.A.-M.D. program. Upon admission, students from nonurban areas have personal attributes and achievement levels similar to those of urban students. At the end of the second year of the program (the curriculum period marked by the highest attrition rate), the performance of nonurban and urban students is also indistinguishable. However, the student characteristics which are most predictive of that subsequent performance in the program depend upon the rural/urban origins of the students.

Achievement↗
PubMed1979

Efficacy of cognitive/noncognitive measures in predicting resident-physician performance.

There has been relatively little research on the relationship between the clinical performance of physicians and the criteria used by medical school admissions and promotions committees. The studies which have been done primarily relate clinical performance to cognitive criteria. They have usually found only negligible relationships. By considering both cognitive and noncognitive variables, several investigators recently have improved the prediction of clinical performance in medical school. The present authors attempt to determine the increase in predictive efficiency attained by adding noncognitive variables to cognitive variables in predicting clinical performance of residents. The results of this investigation indicate that a combination of cognitive and noncognitive predictor variables functions much better than any individual variable or even any specific class of variables in predicting the postgraduate clinical performance of physicians.

Clinical Competence↗