Theme
10JJ Selection for admission to Medicine
INSTITUTION
School of Medicine, Universitas Islam Bandung, Indonesia
The aspect of medical school admissions rarely investigated is correlation between the student selection attributes and student academic performances in medical school. We present data to correlate psychometrics test and first year's academic performances to describe the effect of the student selection tools for student development.
The aims of the research is to evaluate the ability of psychometric test to predict academic performance in medical school through grade point average (GPA) score of first year students. Pre- admissions data were matched with GPA score of first year students who entered UNISBA Faculty of medicine in 2012. Spearman correlation test analysis was used as statistical analysis.
Table 1. The relationship based on ​​Psychometric and Grade Point Average (GPA) value of UNISBA medical students of 2012-2013 academic year.
Variable |
Variable Mean(SD) |
Median (Range) |
Frequency |
Percentage |
Psychometric Score |
67,48(13,64) |
70,0(30-95) |
|
|
Moderate |
|
|
50 |
32,0 |
Good |
|
|
80 |
51,3 |
Very Good |
|
|
26 |
16,7 |
GPA Value |
2,760,65) |
2,89(0,27-3,80) |
|
|
≤2 Very Poor |
|
|
22 |
14,1 |
2,01-2,49 Poor |
|
|
21 |
13,5 |
2,50-2,99 Good |
|
|
51 |
32,7 |
3,00-3,49 Satisfactory |
|
|
47 |
30,1 |
3,50-4,00 Very Satisfactory |
|
|
15 |
9,6 |
Total |
|
|
156 |
100,0 |
Figure 1. The relationship between the Psikotest and Grade Point Average (GPA) value of UNISBA medical students of 2012-2013 academic years
156 students participated and showed significant correlations with moderate relationship with p<0,001 and correlation coeffisient (r :0,31). Psychometrics test correlated positively with GPA score of first year students of medical school
Figure 2. The correlation between the Psikotest and grade point average (GPA) value of UNISBA medical students of 2012-2013 academic year
Predictive validity data provides further evidence that Psychometric test is useful for medical student selection processes.
Psychometric test can be used for first year medical student performance prediction.
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