McManus, IC;
Iqbal, S;
Chandrarajan, A;
Ferguson, E;
Leaviss, J;
(2005)
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted by selectors from medical school application forms: a prospective, longitudinal study.
BMC Medical Education
, 5
, Article 38. 10.1186/1472-6920-5-38.
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Abstract
Personal statements and referees' reports are widely used on medical school application forms, particularly in the UK, to assess the suitability of candidates for a career in medicine. However there are few studies which assess the validity of such information for predicting unhappiness or dissatisfaction with a career in medicine. Here we combine data from a long-term prospective study of medical student selection and training, with an experimental approach in which a large number of assessors used a paired comparison technique to predict outcome.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted by selectors from medical school application forms: a prospective, longitudinal study. |
| Location: | England |
| Identifier: | PMCID: PMC1325230 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1472-6920-5-38 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-5-38 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2005 McManus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Adult, Career choice, Consensus, Educational status, Female, Forecasting, Great Britain, Happiness, Humans, Job satisfaction, Male, Middle aged, Physicians, Prospective studies, Records as topic, School admission criteria, Self-assessment, Students, Medical |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > UCL Medical School |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/61731 |
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