PMID- 11168488
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020109
LR  - 20191104
IS  - 1396-5883 (Print)
IS  - 1396-5883 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 1
DP  - 2001 Feb
TI  - Professional competence in final-year dental undergraduates: assessment of 
      students admitted by individualised selection and through traditional modes.
PG  - 12-6
AB  - In 1993, a new admission system was introduced at the Dental School, Karolinska 
      Institutet, Sweden. One-third, and subsequently 60% of the students were admitted 
      through an individualised selection system, and the remainder through traditional 
      modes, using secondary school matriculation scores, or a university standard 
      aptitude test. In this study, professional competence of final year 
      undergraduates, assessed by faculty members, was related to mode of admission. 
      The participating faculty members had tutored the students in the adult 
      comprehensive care clinic for 1-3 semesters. 13 faculty members assessed students 
      from 3 freshman intakes. A specially designed protocol was used, comprising 7 
      different criteria to be graded on a scale of 1 to 5, and one overall rating on a 
      scale of 1 to 7. The faculty members were also asked to nominate which of the 7 
      criteria they considered most important for the overall rating: (A) knowledge, 
      (B) initiative, (C) responsibility and judgement, (D) patient contact, (E) 
      clinical skills, (F) co-operative approach and (G) commitment and motivation. 
      Responsibility and judgement (n=11) and knowledge (n=6) were rated as the most 
      important criteria. The evaluation of professional competence using the overall 
      rating as a score shows a better median value (M=5.5) for the individualised 
      group than for the traditional group (M=5.0). There was little or no difference 
      between the 2 groups in median values for the most important 2 criteria, (C and 
      A), but for the individualised group, the interval for the inter-quartile range 
      (IQR) was not only higher, but also more homogeneous. It is concluded that by 
      final year, students originally admitted by individual selection seem to be more 
      professionally competent than classmates admitted on traditional university 
      entrance scores.
FAU - Roding, K
AU  - Roding K
AD  - Department of Humanities, Informatics and Social Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 
      SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Eur J Dent Educ
JT  - European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for 
      Dental Education in Europe
JID - 9712132
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aptitude Tests
MH  - Attitude
MH  - Clinical Competence
MH  - Comprehensive Dental Care
MH  - Cooperative Behavior
MH  - Dental Clinics
MH  - Education, Dental
MH  - Educational Measurement
MH  - Faculty, Dental
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Judgment
MH  - Motivation
MH  - Personality
MH  - *Professional Competence
MH  - *School Admission Criteria
MH  - *Schools, Dental
MH  - Social Responsibility
MH  - *Students, Dental
MH  - Sweden
EDAT- 2001/02/13 11:00
MHDA- 2002/01/10 10:01
CRDT- 2001/02/13 11:00
PHST- 2001/02/13 11:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/01/10 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/02/13 11:00 [entrez]
AID - eje050104 [pii]
AID - 10.1034/j.1600-0579.2001.005001012.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Dent Educ. 2001 Feb;5(1):12-6. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0579.2001.005001012.x.