School Admission Criteria

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Student recruitment in allied health educational programs: the importance of initial source of contact.

As a part of a larger study on recruitment and marketing strategies adopted by allied health programs, this article examines the effect of initial source of information about allied health career opportunities on students decisions to select and enroll ...
Alphonso Baldwin, Augustine O Agho (J Allied Health, 2003SUMMER)
student-recruitment-allied-health-educational-programs-importance.asp

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Premedical education: the contribution of small local colleges.

CONTEXT: Small local colleges may be sources of medical students with the gender, ethnicity, and background that promote identity with and empathy for underserved populations. PURPOSE: This study examined the impact of attendance at these premedical ...
John R Wheat, John E Brandon, Lee R Carter, James D Leeper, James R Jackson (J Rural Health, 2003SPRING)
premedical-education-contribution-small-local-colleges.asp

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A model for diversity in admissions: a review of issues and methods and an experimental approach.

PURPOSE: The underrepresentation of certain minorities within medical education and the medical profession continues to be a problem. A review of the relevant research literature suggests current strategies are inadequate to address this important ...
Clarence D Kreiter, Brent Stansfield, Paul A James, Catherine Solow (Teach Learn Med, 2003SPRING)
model-diversity-admissions-review-issues-methods-experimental-approach.asp

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The effect of undergraduate GPA selectivity adjustment on pre-interview ranking of rural medical school applicants.

CONTEXT: The ongoing need to attract more physicians into rural practice is well documented, and medical school admission practices are a critical component of a multistep effort to produce rural practitioners. PURPOSE: This study was completed to ...
Gregory Eastham Gilbert, Amy Victoria Blue, William Thomas Basco (J Rural Health, 2003SPRING)
effect-undergraduate-gpa-selectivity-adjustment-pre-interview-ranking.asp

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Impact of trends in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education on applications to medical school. II: considerations of race, ethnicity, and income.

The availability of sufficient numbers of qualified medical school applicants has been a periodic source of concern. Over the past few years, this concern has emerged again, as fewer men have applied to medical school and as the number of minority ...
Richard A Cooper (Acad Med, 200309)
impact-trends-primary-secondary-postsecondary-education-applications.asp

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Impact of trends in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education on applications to medical school. I: gender considerations.

The number of applications to medical schools has been declining at a time when attention is beginning to focus on the potential need to expand the infrastructure of medical education to meet the nations growing consumption of health care services. To ...
Richard A Cooper (Acad Med, 200309)
impact-trends-primary-secondary-postsecondary-education-applications1.asp

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Impact of undergraduate and postgraduate rural training, and medical school entry criteria on rural practice among Australian general practitioners: national study of 2414 doctors.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between rural undergraduate training, rural postgraduate training and medical school entry criteria favouring rural students, on likelihood of working in rural Australian general practice. METHODS: National ...
David Wilkinson, Gillian Laven, Nicole Pratt, Justin Beilby (Med Educ, 200309)
impact-undergraduate-postgraduate-rural-training-medical-school-entry.asp

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The physician workforce: a medical school dilemma.

Richard Cooper has advanced a projection of a sizable deficit in physicians in the United States, requiring the training of as many as 10,000 additional physicians annually by the year 2025. He questions the ability of U.S. medical schools to "fill the ...
Douglas L Wood (Health Aff (Millwood), 200307-08)
physician-workforce-medical-school-dilemma.asp

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A recurring theme: the need for minority physicians.

There is compelling evidence for the need to increase diversity within the physician workforce to ensure high-quality medical education, access to health care for the underserved, advances in research, and improved business performance. To have enough ...
Joan Y Reede (Health Aff (Millwood), 200307-08)
recurring-theme-need-minority-physicians.asp

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Medical schools and their applicants: an analysis.

Shortages of physicians have existed periodically throughout U.S. history. In response, medical school capacity has been increased, by either building new schools or expanding existing ones. Each strategy has encountered the obstacles of time, money, and ...
Richard A Cooper (Health Aff (Millwood), 200307-08)
medical-schools-applicants-analysis.asp