A model for diversity in admissions: A review of issues and methods and an experimental approach

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-122

  Kreiter, Clarence D ^a   Stansfield, Brent ^a   James, Paul A ^a   Solow, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; MINORITY GROUP; MODEL; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042779807     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1502_08     Document Type: Review

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