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Participation and Selection Effects of a Voluntary Selection Process
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Schripsema, Nienke R.; van Trigt, Anke M.; Lucieer, Susanna M.; Wouters, Anouk; Croiset, Gerda; Themmen, Axel P. N.; Borleffs, Jan C. C.; Cohen-Schotanus, Janke – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Many different medical school selection processes are used worldwide. In this paper, we examine the effect of (1) participation, and (2) selection in a voluntary selection process on study performance. We included data from two cohorts of medical students admitted to Erasmus MC, Rotterdam and VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and compared them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, College Admission, Medical Students
The Relationship between Extracurricular Activities Assessed during Selection and during Medical School and Performance
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Urlings-Strop, Louise C.; Themmen, Axel P. N.; Stegers-Jager, Karen M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Several medical schools include candidates' extracurricular activities in their selection procedure, with promising results regarding their predictive value for achievement during the clinical years of medical school. This study aims to reveal whether the better achievement in clinical training of students selected on the basis of their…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Extracurricular Activities, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Non-Cognitive Selected Students Do Not Outperform Lottery-Admitted Students in the Pre-Clinical Stage of Medical School
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Lucieer, Susanna M.; Stegers-Jager, Karen M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P.; Themmen, Axel P. N. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Medical schools all over the world select applicants using non-cognitive and cognitive criteria. The predictive value of these different types of selection criteria has however never been investigated within the same curriculum while using a control group. We therefore set up a study that enabled us to compare the academic performance of three…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Medical Students, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria