DeVaul R A, Jervey F, Chappell J A, Caver P, Short B, O'Keefe S
JAMA. 1987 Jan 2;257(1):47-51.
At the University of Texas Medical School at Houston we had a unique opportunity to examine performance through the medical curriculum and one year of postgraduate training of 50 students initially rejected for medical school. Each had been interviewed by the same Admissions Committee, which earlier had selected 150 students through the traditional process. In contrasting the initially accepted and initially rejected groups, academic and demographic variables accounted for only 28% of group difference. The 72% of group difference not accounted for by the variables examined was presumed to relate to Admissions Committee preference. In attrition and in both preclinical and clinical performance through medical school and one year of postgraduate training, there were no meaningful differences between the groups. The observations suggest that the traditional interview process probably does not enhance the ability to predict performance of medical school applicants.
在休斯顿的德克萨斯大学医学院，我们获得了一个独特的机会，对50名最初被医学院拒绝的学生在医学课程学习及一年研究生培训期间的表现进行考察。这些学生均接受了同一个招生委员会的面试，该委员会此前通过传统流程选拔了150名学生。对比最初录取组和最初被拒组发现，学业和人口统计学变量仅占两组差异的28%。未被所考察变量解释的72%的组间差异被推测与招生委员会的偏好有关。在医学院及一年研究生培训期间的退学情况以及临床前和临床阶段的表现方面，两组之间没有显著差异。这些观察结果表明，传统的面试流程可能无法提高预测医学院申请者表现的能力。
