Brown Celia
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Med Teach. 2007 Feb;29(1):27-32. doi: 10.1080/01421590601032419.
Examining the factors that make a medical school attractive (or otherwise) to potential students is particularly important but there is little empirical evidence that explores this issue.
Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 24 prospective medical students at six schools and colleges in England. The interviews aimed to elicit detailed information on the why and how of medical school choice, in students' application and acceptance decisions.
Three categories of medical school attributes stood out as positive determinants of choice: academic factors (with reputation considered the most important), location factors (specifically preferences for particular cities) and intangibles (gut feelings and personal contacts and recommendations). Most of students' decision-making activity was undertaken during the admissions stage of the application process.
The results are important in explaining why the students in the sample did not rate the new medical schools highly and also suggest that few of the important attributes can be manipulated by the schools themselves.
研究使医学院对潜在学生具有吸引力（或缺乏吸引力）的因素尤为重要，但很少有实证证据探讨这一问题。
对英格兰六所学校和学院的24名未来医学生进行了半结构化访谈。访谈旨在获取有关医学院选择的原因和方式的详细信息，以及学生的申请和录取决定。
三类医学院属性脱颖而出，成为选择的积极决定因素：学术因素（声誉被认为是最重要的）、地理位置因素（特别是对特定城市的偏好）和无形因素（直觉、个人关系和推荐）。大多数学生的决策活动是在申请过程的录取阶段进行的。
这些结果对于解释样本中的学生为何对新医学院评价不高很重要，也表明很少有重要属性可以由学校自身操控。
