Eckhert N L, Cronin E J
J Med Educ. 1984 Aug;59(8):634-42. doi: 10.1097/00001888-198408000-00003.
Tradition has restricted the range of members on medical school admissions committees to medical school faculties. To test whether diversity among members of admissions committees may be as desirable as diversity among students, the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) sponsored a simulated admissions conference. The conference offered nonmedical professionals opportunities to critique the admissions process, to suggest new approaches, and to participate a simulated admissions procedure. The conferees identified and rank-ordered the 12 characteristics they considered desirable in medical school applicants. These were compared with the rankings of these characteristics by the UMMS Admissions Committee. The simulated admissions committee declared that undergraduate college grades and scores on the Medical College Admission Test were of subordinate significance to humanistic and philosophic values. However, when actually selecting from facsimile applications, the conferees placed greater emphasis on quantifiable data than they had expected. The conference emphasized the desirability of the cross-fertilization of ideas between nontraditional members and the actual admissions committee.
传统上医学院招生委员会的成员范围仅限于医学院的教员。为了测试招生委员会成员的多样性是否与学生的多样性一样可取，马萨诸塞大学医学院（UMMS）主办了一次模拟招生会议。该会议为非医学专业人士提供了批评招生过程、提出新方法以及参与模拟招生程序的机会。参会者确定了他们认为医学院申请者应具备的12个特征并进行了排序。这些特征与UMMS招生委员会对这些特征的排名进行了比较。模拟招生委员会宣称，本科大学成绩和医学院入学考试分数相对于人文和哲学价值观而言重要性较低。然而，在从模拟申请中实际进行选择时，参会者对可量化数据的重视程度超过了他们的预期。该会议强调了非传统成员与实际招生委员会之间思想交叉融合的可取性。
