Evaluating GPAs and MCAT scores as predictors of NBME I and clerkship performances based on students' data from one undergraduate institution

Academic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 394-396

  Silver, Barbara ^a   Hodgson, Caro S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0030990794     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199705000-00022     Document Type: Article

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