Peninsula Dental School, Peninsula College ofMedicine and Dentistry, TamarScience Park, Plymouth, PL6 8BU.
Br Dent J. 2010 Feb 13;208(3):127-31. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.105.
The aim of the study described was to measure the performance of potential dental students in an evidence-based, objective, structured admission interview, and to compare that performance to student achievement in aptitude tests, tests of scientific knowledge, and tests of ability to apply knowledge to dentistry. A list of desirable attributes of dental professionals was drawn from the literature, omitting those which were considered to be learnt within the dental school curriculum. Possession of these attributes were then measured by objectively scoring responses to questions framed around a challenging clinical scenario. The interview scores were then correlated against student performance in an MCQ science for dentistry examination, an applied dental knowledge test, and the Graduate Australian Medical student aptitude test. The literature review revealed that sensitivity to others, professionalism, and ethical behaviour were deemed almost as important as academic and technical competency. Correlations of scores from an interview which sought to measure the attributes described in the literature with scores in scientific knowledge tests, aptitude tests and applied dental knowledge tests were low, and did not reach statistical significance. The results suggest that an interview process has been devised which measures the importance of characteristics not readily captured in more traditional selection strategies. Because the literature demonstrates that these characteristics are important to the public and the profession, this objective interview is a useful selection tool.
本研究旨在评估潜在牙科学生在循证、客观、结构化入学面试中的表现，并将其与学生在能力倾向测试、科学知识测试和知识应用于牙科能力测试中的表现进行比较。从文献中提取了牙科专业人员的一系列理想属性，但排除了那些被认为是在牙科学院课程中学习的属性。然后，通过围绕具有挑战性的临床情况设计问题来客观地衡量对这些属性的掌握程度。然后，将面试分数与牙科 MCQ 科学考试、应用牙科知识测试和澳大利亚研究生医学学生能力倾向测试的学生成绩进行相关性分析。文献回顾表明，对他人的敏感性、专业性和道德行为与学术和技术能力一样重要。旨在衡量文献中描述的属性的面试分数与科学知识测试、能力倾向测试和应用牙科知识测试的分数之间的相关性较低，且没有达到统计学意义。结果表明，已经设计了一种面试流程，该流程可以衡量在更传统的选择策略中不易捕捉到的特征的重要性。由于文献表明这些特征对公众和专业人士很重要，因此这种客观的面试是一种有用的选择工具。
