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| Title |
To what extent does the Health Professions Admission Test-Ireland predict performance in early undergraduate tests of communication and clinical skills? – An observational cohort study
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, May 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-13-68 |
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| Authors |
Maureen E Kelly, Daniel Regan, Fidelma Dunne, Patrick Henn, John Newell, Siun O’Flynn |
| Abstract |
Internationally, tests of general mental ability are used in the selection of medical students. Examples include the Medical College Admission Test, Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test and the UK Clinical Aptitude Test. The most widely used measure of their efficacy is predictive validity.A new tool, the Health Professions Admission Test- Ireland (HPAT-Ireland), was introduced in 2009. Traditionally, selection to Irish undergraduate medical schools relied on academic achievement. Since 2009, Irish and EU applicants are selected on a combination of their secondary school academic record (measured predominately by the Leaving Certificate Examination) and HPAT-Ireland score. This is the first study to report on the predictive validity of the HPAT-Ireland for early undergraduate assessments of communication and clinical skills. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 4 | 80% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 72 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 10% |
| Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 21 | 29% |
| Unknown | 16 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 34% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 12% |
| Psychology | 4 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Unknown | 22 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2015.
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#8,050,914
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Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,472
of 3,681 outputs
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#67,148
of 196,531 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#18
of 41 outputs
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