The Evolution of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT exam)

Pigg, Trey; Kroopnick, Marc

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“…One potential recruitment strategy to increase rates of medical students choosing psychiatry may then be to encourage undergraduate students with an interest in psychology to apply to medical school. Recent changes to the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) that include a greater emphasis on social and behavioral sciences may also have an impact on the medical school applicant pool in favor of students with an early interest in psychiatry (22). There are likely varied reasons why choice of certain specialties is more or less stable (23).…”

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“…Presented at the 169th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, May 14-18, 2016; the annual meeting of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Excelsior Springs, Mo., June 16-18, 2016; the annual meeting of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, San Juan, P.R., Sept. [21][22][23][24]2016; and the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Seattle, Nov. 11-15, 2016. The authors thank the staff at the Association of American Medical Colleges for their assistance with data set acquisition and refinement.…”

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Stability of and Factors Related to Medical Student Specialty Choice of Psychiatry

Goldenberg

Williams

Spollen³

2017

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Stability of and Factors Related to Medical Student Specialty Choice of Psychiatry

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Spollen³

2017

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“…1,2 Since 1928, this exam has been a significant component of the application process for the majority of medical schools in North America. 3 The exam has gone through several iterations after its inception. Various studies designed to evaluate the most recent versions of this test have identified the exam's ability to predict student performance during the first year of medical school, 4 throughout the entire medical school program, 5 and beyond.…”

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Admissions to Medical School during the COVID-19 Era without the MCAT

Corridon

2021

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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As medical schools cope with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new cohort of students will be admitted in the fall. Administrators are again challenged to make unprecedented enrollment decisions without standardized exams. This challenge provides unique opportunities to re-evaluate admission processes that has been employed since 1928 and support holistic admissions. This article highlights key factors that are being considered during current medical school admission cycles, including limited opportunities to take standardized exams, heightened student anxiety, and potential exam alternatives. These factors are framed and discussed within the context of the medical college admission test (MCAT) exam.

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Detached concern?: Emotional socialization in twenty-first century medical education

Underman

Hirshfield

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Early works in medical sociology have been pivotal in the development of scholarly knowledge about emotions, emotional socialization, and empathy within medical training, medical education, and medical contexts. Yet despite major shifts in both medical education and in medicine writ-large, medical sociologists' focus on emotions has largely disappeared. In this paper, we argue that due to recent radical transformations in the medical arena, emotional socialization within medical education should be of renewed interest for sociologists. Developments in medical education such as increased diversity among enrollees, the rise of patient health movements, and curricular transformation have made this context a particularly interesting case for sociologists working on a variety of questions related to structural, organizational, and cultural change. We offer three areas of debate within studies in medical education that sociologists may be interested in studying: 1) gendered and racialized differences in the performance of clinical skills related to emotion, 2) differences in self-reported empathy among subspecialties, and 3) loss of empathy during the third year or clinical year of medical school.

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The Evolution of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT exam)

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Stability of and Factors Related to Medical Student Specialty Choice of Psychiatry

Stability of and Factors Related to Medical Student Specialty Choice of Psychiatry

Admissions to Medical School during the COVID-19 Era without the MCAT

Detached concern?: Emotional socialization in twenty-first century medical education

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