Even one star at a level could be "too little, too late" for medical student selection

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McManus, Chris ^a   Woolf, Katherine ^a   Dacre, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL ADMISSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT SELECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES ADMISSIONS SERVICE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENGLAND; HUMANS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; WALES;

EID: 42549168995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-8-16     Document Type: Article

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