Carla Schröpel, Teresa Festl-Wietek, Anne Herrmann-Werner, Tim Wittenberg, Katrin Schüttpelz-Brauns, Andrea Heinzmann, Oliver Keis, Lena Listunova, Kevin Kunz, Tobias Böckers, Sabine C Herpertz, Stephan Zipfel, Rebecca Erschens
OBJECTIVE: Every year, many applicants want to study medicine. Appropriate selection procedures are needed to identify suitable candidates for the demanding curriculum. Although research on medical school admissions has shown good predictive validity for cognitive selection methods (undergraduate GPA, aptitude tests), the literature on applicants with professional and/or academic experience prior to entering medical school remains slim. In our study, we therefore aimed to examine the association between academic success in medical school and having previously completed vocational training in the medical field, voluntary service (≥11 months) or an academic degree...
2024: PloS One