MOR: A simulation-based assessment centre for evaluating the personal and interpersonal qualities of medical school candidates

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 991-998

  Ziv, Amitai ^a,b   Rubin, Orit ^a,c   Moshinsky, Avital ^c   Gafni, Naomi ^c   Kotler, Moshe ^b   Dagan, Yaron ^b   Lichtenberg, Dov ^b   Mekori, Yoseph A ^b   Mittelman, Moshe ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c National Institute for Testing and Evaluation Jerusalem   (Israel)

Author keywords

*education, medical, undergraduate; *school admission criteria; *schools, medical; Interpersonal relations; Personality; Personality evaluation *methods; Psychometrics; Students, medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; RESPONSIBILITY; SIMULATION; STRESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 51649083828     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03161.x     Document Type: Article

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