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Sandra Nicholson
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Open Access“It’s going to be hard you know…” Teachers’ perceived role in widening access to medicine
Medical schools worldwide undertake widening access (WA) initiatives (e.g. pipeline, outreach and academic enrichment programmes) to support pupils from high schools which do not traditionally send high number...
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Open AccessThe UK medical education database (UKMED) what is it? Why and how might you use it?
Educating doctors is expensive and poor performance by future graduates can literally cost lives. Whilst the practice of medicine is highly evidence based, medical education is much less so. Research on medica...
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Widening Access: Achieving Equity in Medical Education
The issues in terms of widening access (WA) are very different in medicine compared to other healthcare professions. We focus on the challenge of increasing diversity into medicine in the UK context, but use e...
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Open AccessLet us not neglect the impact of organizational culture on increasing diversity within medical schools
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Open AccessComparison of the sensitivity of the UKCAT and A Levels to sociodemographic characteristics: a national study
The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) was introduced to facilitate widening participation in medical and dental education in the UK by providing universities with a continuous variable to aid selection; one th...
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Open AccessThe 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...
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Open AccessConstruct-level predictive validity of educational attainment and intellectual aptitude tests in medical student selection: meta-regression of six UK longitudinal studies
Measures used for medical student selection should predict future performance during training. A problem for any selection study is that predictor-outcome correlations are known only in those who have been sel...
