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Exploring UK medical school differences: the MedDifs study of selection, teaching, student and F1 perceptions, postgraduate outcomes and fitness to practise

Medical schools differ, particularly in their teaching, but it is unclear whether such differences matter, although influential claims are often made. The Medical School Differences (MedDifs) study brings togethe...

I. C. McManus, Andrew Christopher Harborne, Hugo Layard Horsfall… in BMC Medicine (2020)

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The Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey: an analysis of 47,258 timetabled teaching events in 25 UK medical schools relating to timing, duration, teaching formats, teaching content, and problem-based learning

What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides...

Oliver Patrick Devine, Andrew Christopher Harborne, Hugo Layard Horsfall… in BMC Medicine (2020)

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Fitness to practise sanctions in UK doctors are predicted by poor performance at MRCGP and MRCP(UK) assessments: data linkage study

The predictive validity of postgraduate examinations, such as MRCGP and MRCP(UK) in the UK, is hard to assess, particularly for clinically relevant outcomes. The sanctions imposed on doctors by the UK’s Genera...

Richard Wakeford, Kasia Ludka, Katherine Woolf, I. C. McManus in BMC Medicine (2018)

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Impact of accelerated, graduate-entry medicine courses: a comparison of profile, success, and specialty destination between graduate entrants to accelerated or standard medicine courses in UK

Little research has compared the profile, success, or specialty destinations of graduates entering UK medical schools via accelerated, 4-yr, standard 5-yr and 6-yr programmes. Four research questions directed ...

Paul Garrud, I. C. McManus in BMC Medical Education (2018)

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Would changing the selection process for GP trainees stem the workforce crisis? A cohort study using multiple-imputation and simulation

There is currently a shortage of qualified GPs in the UK and not all of the training posts available each year are filled. Changing the way in which GP trainees are selected could help increase the training po...

Celia Taylor, I. C. McManus, Ian Davison in BMC Medical Education (2018)

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Using differential item functioning to evaluate potential bias in a high stakes postgraduate knowledge based assessment

Fairness is a critical component of defensible assessment. Candidates should perform according to ability without influence from background characteristics such as ethnicity or sex. However, performance differ...

David Hope, Karen Adamson, I. C. McManus, Liliana Chis… in BMC Medical Education (2018)

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Doctor, builder, soldier, lawyer, teacher, dancer, shopkeeper, vet: exploratory study of which eleven-year olds would like to become a doctor

Very little is known about the extent to which eleven-year olds might consider a career in medicine. This exploratory study therefore asked children and their parents about medicine as a possible career, looki...

I. C. McManus, Terry Ng-Knight, Lucy Riglin, Norah Frederickson… in BMC Psychology (2015)

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Assessment at UK medical schools varies substantially in volume, type and intensity and correlates with postgraduate attainment

In the United Kingdom (UK), medical schools are free to develop local systems and policies that govern student assessment and progression. Successful completion of an undergraduate medical degree results in th...

Oliver Patrick Devine, Andrew Christopher Harborne, I. C. McManus in BMC Medical Education (2015)

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Cross-comparison of MRCGP & MRCP(UK) in a database linkage study of 2,284 candidates taking both examinations: assessment of validity and differential performance by ethnicity

MRCGP and MRCP(UK) are the main entry qualifications for UK doctors entering general [family] practice or hospital [internal] medicine. The performance of MRCP(UK) candidates who subsequently take MRCGP allows...

Richard Wakeford, MeiLing Denney, Katarzyna Ludka-Stempien… in BMC Medical Education (2015)

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Genome-wide association study of handedness excludes simple genetic models

Handedness is a human behavioural phenotype that appears to be congenital, and is often assumed to be inherited, but for which the developmental origin and underlying causation(s) have been elusive. Models of ...

J AL Armour, A Davison, I C McManus in Heredity (2014)

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The UKCAT-12 study: educational attainment, aptitude test performance, demographic and socio-economic contextual factors as predictors of first year outcome in a cross-sectional collaborative study of 12 UK medical schools

Most UK medical schools use aptitude tests during student selection, but large-scale studies of predictive validity are rare. This study assesses the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), and its four...

I C McManus, Chris Dewberry, Sandra Nicholson, Jonathan S Dowell in BMC Medicine (2013)

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Investigating possible ethnicity and sex bias in clinical examiners: an analysis of data from the MRCP(UK) PACES and nPACES examinations

Bias of clinical examiners against some types of candidate, based on characteristics such as sex or ethnicity, would represent a threat to the validity of an examination, since sex or ethnicity are ‘construct-...

I C McManus, Andrew T Elder, Jane Dacre in BMC Medical Education (2013)

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Vocation and avocation: leisure activities correlate with professional engagement, but not burnout, in a cross-sectional survey of UK doctors

Sir William Osler suggested in 1899 that avocations (leisure activities) in doctors are related to an increased sense of vocation (professional engagement) and a decreased level of burnout. This study evaluate...

I C McManus, Hallgeir Jonvik, Peter Richards, Elisabeth Paice in BMC Medicine (2011)

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I. C. McMANUS in Nature (1991)