Medical School Selection : A Competency-based Approach

ISBN-13: 9783639145373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str.

Gominda Ponnamperuma

Opis

If medical schools need to ensure that theirgraduates possess the competencies necessary topractice medicine, it makes sense that the medicalschool applicants should be selected based on theirpotential to achieve these competencies. Until veryrecently, medical school selection has been mostlybased on cognitive abilities. Medical practice,however, demands that medical students should masternot only cognitive, but also the non-cognitivecompetencies; i.e. skills and attitudes. This book delves into an experiment of designing andvalidating a medical school selection test thatassesses the applicant s potential to achieve bothcognitive and non-cognitive competencies. First, ananalysis of the issues related to personnelselection, together with a historical overview ofpersonnel recruitment is provided. Then, a step bystep account of designing and validating a selectiontest is provided, with justification of each step inthe light of educational theory and practice. Aninsight into such a process will be invaluable notonly to medical educators and administrators, butalso to those involved in personnel recruitment ingeneral.

O autorze

Gominda G. Ponnamperuma, MBBS (Colombo), Dip. Psychology
(Colombo), MMEd (Dundee), PhD (Dundee), is an academic at Faculty
of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has experience
in working with medical curricula, both nationally and
internationally. Assessment, and curriculum development and
evaluation are his research interests.