Sims, Shireen Madani Lynch, James W
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Medical education online
The College of Medicine at our institution underwent a major curricular revision in order to develop a patient-centered context for learning. The admission process was revised to reflect this change, adopting a holistic review process, with the hope of attracting students who were particularly well suited to a patient-centered curriculum and learni...
Kreiter, Clare O'Shea, Marie Bruen, Catherine Murphy, Paul Pawlikowska, Teresa
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Medical education online
While medical educators appear to believe that admission to the medical school should be governed, at least in part, by human judgement, there has been no systematic presentation of evidence suggesting it improves selection. From a fair testing perspective, legal, ethical, and psychometric considerations, all dictate that the scientific evidence re...
Harrison, Leila E
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Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)
The holistic review in admissions framework has gained ground in medical schools. Because holistic review is unique at each institution, there is a paucity of evidence about whether it produces a more diverse interview pool than metrics-driven processes. The aim of this quantitative causal-comparative replication study was twofold: (1) to assess wh...
Nohria, Rahul Adams, Jennifer Garrison, Gwen E
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American journal of pharmaceutical education
Objective. To investigate the impact of socioeconomic status as an admissions criterion for pharmacy school admissions. Methods. Using de-identified data from two PharmCAS application cycles (2012-2013 and 2015-2016), a new socio-economic status indicator was crafted based on complex parental education and occupation information provided by applica...
Gómez, Jennifer M. Caño, Annmarie Baltes, Boris B.
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Training and education in professional psychology
The field of psychology must racially/ethnically diversify to create a workforce that can meet the needs of education, training, and interventions in an increasingly pluralistic society. Systemic bias in psychology doctoral programs’ admissions process may partially account for relatively few psychologists being underrepresented minorities (URMs). ...
Hernández-Colón, Isabelle Rios Caño, Annmarie Wurm, Lee H. Sanders, Gavin Nava, Jennifer
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Frontiers in Psychology
While there is movement to create more equitable and holistic admission review processes, faculty continue to place strong emphasis on a single piece of information when making admissions decisions: standardized test scores. This study used an experimental design to test whether instructions provided to faculty prior to assessing doctoral applicant...
Epstein, Sherise Konuthula, Neeraja Meyer, Tanya K Whipple, Mark E Bowe, Sarah N Bly, Randall A Abuzeid, Waleed M
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OTO open
Increasing diversity in the physician workforce is important to improving racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes in the United States. We describe the implementation of a "distance traveled" question (DTQ) in our residency application process. For the 2021-2022 cycle, all applicants to the University of Washington otolaryngology residency...
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Construction and demolition waste treatment has become an increasingly pressing economic, social, and environmental concern across the world. This study employs a science mapping approach to provide a thorough and systematic examination of the literature on waste management research. This study identifies the most significant journals, authors, pub...
Trivedi, Shweta Clark, Jessica C Royal, Kenneth D
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Journal of veterinary medical education
During the summer of 2020, a survey-based study was conducted at North Carolina State University, a land-grant university, to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on pre-veterinary students' ability to gain experience hours for Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) admissions. Of the 286 respondents (47% of the respondent pool), 92% reported losing at lea...
Gómez, Jennifer M
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Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
In this commentary, I highlight flaws in the article by Woo and colleagues (this issue) that undermine its credibility and utility as rigorous science that contributes to the field. I do so by discussing (a) the concept of epistemic oppression regarding the glaring exclusion of multiple germane bodies of research and (b) the importance of including...
