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https://read.qxmd.com/read/37581856/associations-between-education-policies-and-the-geographic-disposition-of-family-physicians-a-retrospective-observational-study-of-mcmaster-university-education-data
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lawrence Grierson, Mathew Mercuri, Asiana Elma, Meera Mahmud, Dorothy Bakker, Neil Johnston, Monica Aggarwal, Gina Agarwal
The maldistribution of family physicians challenges equitable primary care access in Canada. The Theory of Social Attachment suggests that preferential selection and distributed training interventions have potential in influencing physician disposition. However, evaluations of these approaches have focused predominantly on rural underservedness, with little research considering physician disposition in other underserved communities. Accordingly, this study investigated the association between the locations from which medical graduates apply to medical school, their undergraduate preclerkship, clerkship, residency experiences, and practice as indexed across an array of markers of underservedness...
August 15, 2023: Advances in Health Sciences Education
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37485787/medical-students-perception-of-their-distance-travelled-in-medical-school-applications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brandon L Ellsworth, Quintin P Solano, Julie Evans, Serena S Bidwell, Mary Byrnes, Gurjit Sandhu
INTRODUCTION: Within medical school's holistic review of applicants includes a review of their distance travelled to get to this point in their education. The AAMC defines distance travelled (DT) as, 'any obstacles or hardships you've overcome to get to this point in your education or any life challenges you've faced and conquered'. What medical students consider as their distance travelled has not been explored. The authors sought to identify the factors medical students perceive are important for medical school admissions to consider when assessing someone's 'distance travelled' by asking current medical students to share their DT experiences along with the barriers and facilitators they encountered on their medical school journey...
July 23, 2023: Medical Education
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37466941/racial-and-ethnic-diversity-in-medical-school-admissions-in-canada
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ye Bin Shin, Amanda Stojcevski, Taylore Dupuis-Miller, Amrit Kirpalani
IMPORTANCE: Medical schools promote admission pathways as well as diversity and inclusivity to prospective students who are underrepresented in medicine (UIM) primarily via their websites. Research from organizational structures supports the use of instrumental values (which focus on behavior and core beliefs), rather than terminal values (which focus on the end goal), to promote diversity. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the use of instrumental and terminal values to promote institutional diversity and inclusivity on Canadian medical school websites...
July 3, 2023: JAMA Network Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37460482/changing-the-interview-day-assessing-the-impact-of-incorporating-local-community-members-into-the-medical-school-admissions-interview-process
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Randolph B Lyde, Stephanie J Fagbemi, Orayinka Orafidiya, Mahdieh Hosseini, Amanda Pirola, John M Cipriaso, Amy J Goldberg, Maria Zimmerman, Kathleen Reeves, Jacob W Ufberg
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 1, 2022: Academic Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37418507/a-red-flag-system-adds-value-to-medical-school-admissions-interviews
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hak Yung Ng, Jane Anderson, Lorna Marson, David Hope
INTRODUCTION: Non-cognitive traits should be considered when selecting candidates to study medicine. However, evaluating these traits remains difficult. We explored whether measuring undesirable non-cognitive behaviour ('Red Flags') added value to a medical school admissions system. Red Flags included rudeness, ignoring the contributions of others, disrespectful behaviour, or poor communication. METHODS: Following an admissions interview testing non-cognitive attributes in 648 applicants to a UK medical school, we measured the association between interview score and Red Flag frequency...
July 7, 2023: Medical Teacher
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37404444/medical-students-socioeconomic-status-and-academic-performance-in-medical-school
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kencie Ely, Gemma Lagasca, Shaun Andersen, Deepal Patel, Edward Simanton
Background Students from lower socioeconomic groups tend to underestimate their chances of acceptance to medical school and their likelihood of success once admitted. Objective The objective of this study is to determine if socioeconomic disadvantage status is linked to lower medical college admission test (MCAT) scores and academic performance in medical school. Methods Using the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) education/occupation (EO) indicator, we compared economically disadvantaged students to students with no financial disadvantage on the MCAT, Phase 1 National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, Phase 2 NBME, and USMLE Step 2 test scores...
June 2023: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37362581/a-model-for-online-delivery-of-multiple-mini-interviews
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon C Cork
Multiple mini interviews (MMIs) have become the mainstay of medical school admission interviews in the United Kingdom. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Government imposed restrictions on the meeting of people indoors precipitated a move towards conducting interviews online. Thus, the development of methodologies to conduct robust MMI style interviews remotely was required. In this article, a validated method for conducting remote MMIs is described. This method of delivery produced comparable candidate scores compared with pre-pandemic in-person interviews and maintained reliability...
2023: Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37232756/self-reported-disadvantage-in-medical-school-admissions-a-call-to-review-revise-and-further-advance-holistic-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leila E Harrison, Laura Fletcher, Dana Dunleavy, Tanisha Price-Johnson, Roopal Vashi Kundu, Glen T Fogerty, Linda Berardi-Demo
PURPOSE: This study examined how applicants interpret the self-reported disadvantaged (SRD) question in the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) application. METHOD: data from 129,262 applicants who applied through AMCAS from 2017 through 2019 were used, including financial and family history, demographic characteristics, and work status and residence. Fifteen applicants from the 2020 and 2021 AMCAS cycles were interviewed about their experiences with the SRD question...
May 26, 2023: Academic Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37201484/surveying-the-middle-ground-a-thematic-analysis-of-the-medical-school-applications-of-standard-performers
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joseph M Maciuba, Yating Teng, Matthew Pflipsen, Mary A Andrews, Steven J Durning
INTRODUCTION: As gatekeepers to the medical profession, admissions committees make important decisions through the analysis of quantitative (e.g. test scores and grade point averages) and qualitative (e.g. letters of recommendation and personal statements) data. One area of the application that deserves additional study is the Work and Activities section, where students describe their extracurricular experiences. Previous research has found different themes that sometimes overlap in the applications of exceptional performing and low performing medical students, but it is unclear if these themes are present in the applications of standard performers...
May 18, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37185337/what-makes-a-good-doctor-a-critical-discourse-analysis-of-perspectives-from-medical-students-with-lived-experience-as-patients
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Erene Stergiopoulos, Maria Athina Tina Martimianakis
What constitutes a 'good doctor' varies widely across groups and contexts. While patients prioritise communication and empathy, physicians emphasise medical expertise, and medical students describe a combination of the two as professional ideals. We explored the conceptions of the 'good doctor' held by medical learners with chronic illnesses or disabilities who self-identify as patients to understand how their learning as both patients and future physicians aligns with existing medical school curricula. We conducted 10 semistructured interviews with medical students with self-reported chronic illness or disability and who self-identified as patients...
April 26, 2023: Medical Humanities
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37174745/determinants-of-working-practice-location-for-clinicians-according-to-high-school-medical-school-and-resident-training-locations-in-korea
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kyungah Park, Hyeongsu Kim, Jeehye Lee, Jinyoung Shin, AhHyun Park
Although several regulations have been implemented for medical school admission, such as a quota system, the uneven distribution of healthcare personnel across regions is an unresolved problem in Korea. This study explores the distribution and retention rate of clinicians across regions according to the degree of experience staying in the current clinical area during high school/medical school/resident training using 2016 Korean Physician Survey data. Both in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, clinicians who completed high school, medical school, and resident training in the current practice region (Subgroup D) accounted for the largest proportion (Metro, n = 1611, 46...
April 22, 2023: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37130009/medical-school-admissions-focusing-on-producing-a-physician-workforce-that-addresses-the-needs-of-the-united-states
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Charles G Prober, Sanjay V Desai
The aging population, burnout, and earlier retirement of physicians along with the static number of training positions are likely to worsen the current physician shortage. There is an urgent need to transform the process for selecting medical students. In this Invited Commentary, the authors suggest that to build the physician workforce that the United States needs for the future, academic medicine should focus on building capacity in 3 overarching areas. First, medical schools need to develop a more diverse pool of capable applicants that better matches the demographic characteristics of health care trainees with those of the population, and they need to nurture applicants with diverse career aspirations...
April 27, 2023: Academic Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37076394/applying-holistic-review-practices-to-a-combined-baccalaureate-medical-degree-program-reflections-on-lessons-learned
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Marlene P Ballejos, Sally Fortner, Jamie Reira, Rebecca S Hartley, Valerie Romero-Leggott, Robert E Sapién
PROBLEM: Despite the implementation of holistic review in the medical school application process, there is little information about how this can be utilized in Combined Baccalaureate/Medical Degree pipeline programs, especially since many programs offer reserved spots to their students in the medical school. Implementing holistic review in a Combined Baccalaureate/Medical Degree program and intentionally structuring it to align with the medical school mission and admissions practices and processes, can improve the diversification of the physician workforce, contribute to more primary care doctors, and promote in-state practice...
April 17, 2023: Journal of the National Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37052521/regional-quota-replaced-by-covid-19-quota-the-dilemma-of-japanese-medical-school-admissions
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yudai Kaneda
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 13, 2023: QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027495/can-health-disparities-be-addressed-by-giving-rural-minorities-dual-consideration-in-the-medical-school-admission-process
#35
EDITORIAL
Forrest Bohler, Garrett W Peters, Varna Taranikanti
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 2023: Medical Education Online
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37012063/the-relationship-between-required-physician-letters-of-recommendation-and-decreasing-diversity-in-osteopathic-medical-school-admissions
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Justin Fox, John Burgess, Alexis M Stoner, Harold Garner, Heather Bendyk
CONTEXT: Some racial and ethnic groups are underrepresented in the medical field because they face unique barriers to admission to medical school. One admission requirement that can present a barrier for applicants is the physician letter of recommendation (PLOR). Undergraduate students report confusion with the application process and lack of mentorship to be two of their biggest challenges to becoming a doctor. It is especially challenging to those who already have limited access to practicing physicians...
March 21, 2023: Journal of osteopathic medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36998488/can-we-revise-medical-school-admissions-to-reflect-revised-canmeds-competencies
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amrit Kirpalani
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2023: Canadian Medical Education Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36990187/impact-of-racial-ethnic-and-gender-disparities-in-cardiology
#38
REVIEW
Muhammad Daim Bin Zafar, Yumna Jamil, Maham Bilal, Sushma Rathi, Anusha Anwer
Literature shows evidence of racial and gender biases in many sub-specialties of medicine including cardiology. Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities exist along the path to cardiology residency, beginning as early as medical school admissions. Approximately 65.62% White, 4.71% Black, 18.06% Asian, and 8.86% Hispanic are cardiologists, while there are a total of 60.1% White, 12.2% Black, 5.6% Asian, and 18.5% Hispanic people in the US in 2019, showing evident underrepresentation. Gender disparities have an inevitable role in the lack of a diverse cardiovascular workforce...
March 27, 2023: Current Problems in Cardiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36948982/what-s-in-a-number-the-value-of-titers-as-routine-proof-of-immunity-for-medical-students
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carmen L Charlton, Ashley-Nicole M Bailey, L Alexa Thompson, Jamil N Kanji, Natalie C Marshall
OBJECTIVES: To assess the guideline concordance of medical school requirements for students' proof-of-immunity in the United States (US) and Canada. METHODS: National guidelines for healthcare worker proof-of-immunity to measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella were compared to admission requirements for 62 US and 17 Canadian medical schools. RESULTS: All surveyed schools accepted at least one recommended form of proof-of-immunity, however, contrary to national guidelines, 16% of surveyed US schools asked for a serologic titer, and only 73-79% US schools accepted vaccination as the sole proof-of-immunity...
April 24, 2023: Vaccine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36856902/admitting-privileges-a-construction-ecology-perspective-on-the-unintended-consequences-of-medical-school-admissions
#40
REVIEW
Janelle S Taylor, Claire L Wendland, Kulamakan Mahan Kulasegaram, Frederic W Hafferty
Medical-school applicants learn from many sources that they must stand out to fit in. Many construct self-presentations intended to appeal to medical-school admissions committees from the raw materials of work and volunteer experiences, in order to demonstrate that they will succeed in a demanding profession to which access is tightly controlled. Borrowing from the field of architecture the lens of construction ecology, which considers buildings in relation to the global effects of the resources required for their construction, we reframe medical-school admissions as a social phenomenon that has far-reaching harmful unintended consequences, not just for medicine but for the broader world...
March 1, 2023: Advances in Health Sciences Education
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