Lipton A, Huxham G, Hamilton D
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia.
Med Educ. 1988 Sep;22(5):381-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1988.tb00771.x.
In Queensland, scores in the final 2 years of secondary school scaled by an independent aptitude test are used to determine admission to tertiary education. The validity of this procedure for medical school enrollment has been investigated. Data were from four cohorts which entered the medical school to commence the course in each of the years 1975-1978, a total of 943 students. In addition to the school subject scores, overall order of merit scores and results of an independent aptitude test used to scale these scores were included with the predictors. Criteria were derived from the grades obtained in the 33 medical school subjects over the 6-year course, or from a broad pass/fail classification. We demonstrate that the school science subjects were of moderate value for prediction of preclinical achievement, but that school English was the most important predictor of performance in the clinical years, which is perhaps an indication of the value of communication skills.
在昆士兰州，中学最后两年的成绩通过一项独立的能力倾向测试进行换算，以此来决定是否能进入高等教育阶段。这一程序用于医学院招生的有效性已得到研究。数据来自1975年至1978年期间每年进入医学院开始课程学习的四个队列，共计943名学生。除了学校科目成绩外，综合成绩排名以及用于换算这些成绩的独立能力倾向测试结果也被纳入预测因素。标准是从六年课程中33门医学院课程所取得的成绩得出的，或者是基于广泛的及格/不及格分类得出的。我们证明，学校的理科科目对预测临床前成绩具有一定价值，但学校英语成绩是临床阶段表现的最重要预测因素，这或许表明了沟通技能的重要性。
