PMID- 20854240
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101022
LR  - 20201219
IS  - 0025-729X (Print)
IS  - 0025-729X (Linking)
VI  - 193
IP  - 6
DP  - 2010 Sep 20
TI  - Selecting medical students for academic and attitudinal outcomes in a Catholic 
      medical school.
PG  - 347-50
AB  - OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether the four criteria used by the University of Notre 
      Dame Australia (UNDA) to select medical students are successful in selecting for 
      graduates with the desired outcomes of academic excellence and Catholic "mission 
      fit". DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective cohort study of medical 
      students selected for 2008 and 2009 entry to UNDA in Sydney, New South Wales. 
      MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The statistical association between the two academic 
      selection criteria of the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test 
      (GAMSAT) and grade point average (GPA) compared with the outcome of medical 
      school examination performance, and the two mission selection criteria of a 
      portfolio score and interview score compared with the outcome of a positive 
      attitude towards serving underserved communities as measured using the Medical 
      Student Attitudes Toward the Underserved (MSATU) test. RESULTS: A total of 
      223 students were enrolled. GAMSAT section 3, GPA and the interview scores were 
      significantly positively associated with academic performance (P < 0.05). 
      However, none of the selection variables were significantly associated with a 
      positive attitude towards serving underserved communities, as measured by the 
      MSATU score. CONCLUSION: None of the four selection tools used were significantly 
      associated with medical students who had a positive attitude towards serving 
      underserved communities.
FAU - Quinlivan, Julie A
AU  - Quinlivan JA
AD  - School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA, Australia. 
      juliequinlivan@nd.edu.au
FAU - Lam, Lawrence T
AU  - Lam LT
FAU - Wan, Siu hong
AU  - Wan Sh
FAU - Petersen, Rodney W
AU  - Petersen RW
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Australia
TA  - Med J Aust
JT  - The Medical journal of Australia
JID - 0400714
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Catholicism
MH  - Educational Measurement
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interviews as Topic
MH  - Male
MH  - Medically Underserved Area
MH  - Personnel Selection
MH  - Physicians/ethics
MH  - Principle-Based Ethics
MH  - Regression Analysis
MH  - Schools, Medical/organization & administration
MH  - *Social Justice
MH  - *Students, Medical/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2010/09/22 06:00
MHDA- 2010/10/23 06:00
CRDT- 2010/09/22 06:00
PHST- 2010/05/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/06/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/09/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/09/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/10/23 06:00 [medline]
AID - qui10476_fm [pii]
AID - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03947.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med J Aust. 2010 Sep 20;193(6):347-50. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03947.x.