Predictive validity of the medical college admissions test writing sample for the United States medical licensing examination steps 1 and 2

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 191-200

  Gilbert, Gregory E ^a   Basco Jr , William T ^a   Blue, Amy V ^a   O'Sullivan, Patricia S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; medical school admissions; multiple regression; predictive validity; undergraduate medical education; USMLE; writing sample

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LICENSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATURAL SCIENCE; PREDICTION; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIANCE; WRITING; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; RESEARCH; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; MALE; RESEARCH; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOUTH CAROLINA; WRITING;

EID: 0036985368     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021110132214     Document Type: Article

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