Increased importance has been placed on noncognitive skills in professional development
and by accrediting bodies of health professions programs in recent years. Therefore, the …

There has been a call for evidence‐based oral healthcare guidelines, to improve precision
dentistry and oral healthcare delivery. The main challenges to this goal are the current lack …

Objectives To explore the relationship between academic performance, extracurricular
activity, and quality of life at medical school in the UK to aid our understanding of students' …

Previous research has found university students report higher levels of psychological
distress compared to the general population. Our aim was to investigate the degree to which …

Despite the abundant supply of academically outstanding applicants to medical schools in
most countries the regularly recurring debate in the academic literature, and indeed …

Context Thirty years ago, it was suggested in the Edinburgh Declaration that medical school
applicants should be selected not only on academic, but also on non‐academic, attributes …

Objectives Differential attainment in school examinations is one of the barriers to increasing
student diversity in medicine. However, studies on the predictive validity of prior academic …

Background Applying for medical school is the first and also one of the most important
career choices a physician makes. It is important to understand the reasons behind this …

Having 'good'doctors is important to everybody. How to select medical students better has
been discussed repeatedly for more than seventy years, implying that prevailing methods …

In medical school selection, non-cognitive performance in particular correlates with
performance in clinical practice. It is arguable, therefore, that selection should focus on non …