Anderson D O, Riches E, Evans R K
Can Med Assoc J. 1966 Dec 24;95(26):1368-74.
All applicants and those who subsequently enrolled for the 1964-65 session in the Western medical schools were studied with the hope that it would encourage a national registration of applicants. Seven hundred and sixty-four applicants completed 865 applications for 288 places in four schools. Although the principal factor in selecting medical students in all Western schools is pre-medical performance, 49 "good-quality" (academically of good standing and under 30 years of age) resident applicants were not accepted in their own provincial school, and 49 places were filled with "poor-quality" students.The loss of good applicants to the Western medical schools and the 20% overlap of each school's applicant pool with that of other schools suggests that objective standards of quality must be developed, and that a regular annual national assessment of applicants should be conducted by the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges.
对所有申请人以及随后在1964 - 1965学年就读于西部医学院校的学生进行了研究，希望借此推动全国范围内的申请人注册登记。764名申请人为四所学校的288个名额提交了865份申请。尽管所有西部学校挑选医学生的主要因素是医学预科阶段的成绩，但有49名“优质”（学业成绩良好且年龄在30岁以下）的本地申请人未被本省的学校录取，而49个名额被“劣质”学生占据。西部医学院校流失了优秀的申请人，且每所学校的申请人库与其他学校的申请人库有20%的重叠，这表明必须制定客观的质量标准，加拿大医学院协会应每年定期对申请人进行全国性评估。
