PMID- 29496805
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180309
LR  - 20180309
IS  - 1930-7837 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-0337 (Linking)
VI  - 82
IP  - 3
DP  - 2018 Mar
TI  - The Dental School Interview As a Predictor of Dental Students' OSCE Performance.
PG  - 269-276
LID - 10.21815/JDE.018.026 [doi]
AB  - The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the dental school admissions 
      interview score as a noncognitive indicator of performance in predoctoral dental 
      education, with specific attention to whether a correlation existed between the 
      admissions interview scores and performance on the objective structured clinical 
      examination (OSCE). The study population consisted of all 175 students in the 
      Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) DMD Classes of 2012 through 2016. Data 
      on students' gender and age on entering dental school were self-reported using 
      their applications for admission to the HSDM DMD program. Data on students' OSCE 
      scores for three examination sessions were collected from the Office of Dental 
      Education. The results showed that the students' interview scores did not 
      significantly correlate with OSCE performance on any of the three exams. 
      Performance on the first and second OSCEs did, however, correlate with 
      performance on the third OSCE (p<0.05). Age on entering dental school was not 
      significantly associated with performance on any of the three OSCEs; however, 
      among male students, there was a significant negative correlation (p<0.05) 
      between entering age and performance on the second and third OSCEs. There was no 
      significant association between gender and OSCE or interview score. These results 
      suggest that although the admissions interview scores can serve as an important 
      resource in student selection, with the lack of association between interview and 
      OSCE scores, it is possible that the communication skills required for the 
      interview do not directly overlap with those required for OSCE success.
FAU - Park, Sang E
AU  - Park SE
AD  - Dr. Park is Associate Dean for Dental Education, Harvard School of Dental 
      Medicine; Ms. Price is a DMD student, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; and Dr. 
      Karimbux is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Tufts University 
      School of Dental Medicine. sang_park@hsdm.harvard.edu.
FAU - Price, Mirissa D
AU  - Price MD
AD  - Dr. Park is Associate Dean for Dental Education, Harvard School of Dental 
      Medicine; Ms. Price is a DMD student, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; and Dr. 
      Karimbux is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Tufts University 
      School of Dental Medicine.
FAU - Karimbux, Nadeem Y
AU  - Karimbux NY
AD  - Dr. Park is Associate Dean for Dental Education, Harvard School of Dental 
      Medicine; Ms. Price is a DMD student, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; and Dr. 
      Karimbux is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Tufts University 
      School of Dental Medicine.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Dent Educ
JT  - Journal of dental education
JID - 8000150
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - College Admission Test
MH  - Education, Dental/standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Educational Status
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Interviews as Topic/methods
MH  - Male
MH  - *School Admission Criteria/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Students, Dental
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - OSCE
OT  - admissions
OT  - assessment
OT  - communication skills
OT  - dental education
OT  - objective structured clinical examination
EDAT- 2018/03/03 06:00
MHDA- 2018/03/10 06:00
CRDT- 2018/03/03 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/09/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/03/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/03/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/03/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - 82/3/269 [pii]
AID - 10.21815/JDE.018.026 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Dent Educ. 2018 Mar;82(3):269-276. doi: 10.21815/JDE.018.026.