From senior school through to consultancy, a plethora of assessments shape medical
careers. Multiple methods of assessment are used to discriminate between applicants …

Context Thirty years ago, it was suggested in the Edinburgh Declaration that medical school
applicants should be selected not only on academic, but also on non‐academic, attributes …

Medical schools use a variety of criteria in selecting applicants for admission, attempting to
assess both the academic preparation and the personal characteristics suitable for a career …

Medical school candidates must have both the cognitive and professional competencies
required to become good physicians. In this commentary, we outline the evidence and …

Selection into GP speciality training is based on results of a multi-method job analysis study.
Six key competency domains were identified as priorities to assess through the current …

In this article, we discuss the practical usefulness of selecting future medical students on the
basis of increasingly popular non-academic tests (eg multiple mini-interviews, situational …

Objectives The reliability of individual non‐cognitive admission criteria in medical education
is controversial. Nonetheless, non‐cognitive admission criteria appear to be widely used in …

Selecting the wrong doctor for the job could have serious consequences; the potential costs
(both human and financial) are substantial. In the UK, the Modernising Medical Careers …

3© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. MEDICAL EDUCATION 2016; 50: 3–23 as a method of
selection but care should be taken when pushing the threshold level up too high …

Objective To determine whether scores on two undergraduate admissions tests (BioMedical
Admissions Test (BMAT) and University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT)) predict performance …