Graduate entry medicine: Selection criteria and student performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Bodger, Owen ^a   Byrne, Aidan ^a   Evans, Philip A ^a   Rees, Sarah ^a   Jones, Gwen ^a   Cowell, Claire ^a   Gravenor, Mike B ^a   Williams, Rhys ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER PLANNING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COURSE CONTENT; COURSE EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SCHOOL ADMISSION; STUDENT RECRUITMENT; DATA BASE; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 81455125465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027161     Document Type: Article

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