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Do personality traits assessed on medical school admission predict exit performance? A UK-wide longitudinal cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in Advances in Health Sciences Education, October 2016
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Title
Do personality traits assessed on medical school admission predict exit performance? A UK-wide longitudinal cohort study
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Advances in Health Sciences Education, October 2016
DOI 10.1007/s10459-016-9715-4
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R. K. MacKenzie, J. Dowell, D. Ayansina, J. A. Cleland

Abstract

Traditional methods of assessing personality traits in medical school selection have been heavily criticised. To address this at the point of selection, "non-cognitive" tests were included in the UK Clinical Aptitude Test, the most widely-used aptitude test in UK medical education (UKCAT: http://www.ukcat.ac.uk/ ). We examined the predictive validity of these non-cognitive traits with performance during and on exit from medical school. We sampled all students graduating in 2013 from the 30 UKCAT consortium medical schools. Analysis included: candidate demographics, UKCAT non-cognitive scores, medical school performance data-the Educational Performance Measure (EPM) and national exit situational judgement test (SJT) outcomes. We examined the relationships between these variables and SJT and EPM scores. Multilevel modelling was used to assess the relationships adjusting for confounders. The 3343 students who had taken the UKCAT non-cognitive tests and had both EPM and SJT data were entered into the analysis. There were four types of non-cognitive test: (1) libertariancommunitarian, (2) NACE-narcissism, aloofness, confidence and empathy, (3) MEARS-self-esteem, optimism, control, self-discipline, emotional-nondefensiveness (END) and faking, (4) an abridged version of 1 and 2 combined. Multilevel regression showed that, after correcting for demographic factors, END predicted SJT and EPM decile. Aloofness and empathy in NACE were predictive of SJT score. This is the first large-scale study examining the relationship between performance on non-cognitive selection tests and medical school exit assessments. The predictive validity of these tests was limited, and the relationships revealed do not fit neatly with theoretical expectations. This study does not support their use in selection.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 158 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 11%
Researcher 17 11%
Student > Master 14 9%
Student > Bachelor 13 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Other 39 25%
Unknown 47 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 50 31%
Psychology 21 13%
Social Sciences 11 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 1%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 54 34%
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