Assessing personal qualities in medical school admissions

Academic Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-321

  Albanese, Mark A ^a   Snow, Mikel H ^a   Skochelak, Susan E ^a   Huggett, Kathryn N ^a   Farrell, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPETENCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STUDENT;

EID: 0037343752     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200303000-00016     Document Type: Article

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