McGaghie W C
Office of Educational Development, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7530.
Acad Med. 1990 Mar;65(3):145-9. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199003000-00004.
Personal qualities, character traits, life experience, and adaptive capacities are all associated with effective professional life and work. Despite widespread acknowledgement that qualitative factors are crucial for success as a medical student and physician, the variables are rarely measured or considered when medical schools reach decisions about student admission. This essay examines the qualitative variables that medical school admission committees might consider when filling their classes, and it offers recommendations about using qualitative data for admission decisions. It concludes with an agenda for research on medical school admission.
个人品质、性格特点、生活经历和适应能力都与有效的职业生涯和工作相关。尽管人们普遍认识到，定性因素对于成为医学生和医生的成功至关重要，但医学院在做出学生录取决定时，很少衡量或考虑这些变量。本文探讨了医学院招生委员会在招生时可能考虑的定性变量，并就如何将定性数据用于录取决定提供了建议。文章最后提出了一个关于医学院招生研究的议程。
