Does the UKCAT predict Year 1 performance in medical school?

Medical Education

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1203-1209

  Lynch, Bonnie ^a   MacKenzie, Rhoda ^b   Dowell, Jon ^a   Cleland, Jennifer ^b   Prescott, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SCHOOL ADMISSION; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED KINGDOM CLINICAL APTITUDE TEST;

COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 70450201401     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03535.x     Document Type: Article

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