@article{discovery61731,
          volume = {5},
           title = {Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted by selectors from medical school application forms: a prospective, longitudinal study.},
            note = {{\copyright} 2005 McManus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.},
            year = {2005},
         journal = {BMC Medical Education},
          author = {McManus, IC and Iqbal, S and Chandrarajan, A and Ferguson, E and Leaviss, J},
             url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-5-38},
            issn = {1472-6920},
        keywords = {Adult, Career choice, Consensus, Educational status, Female, Forecasting, Great Britain, Happiness, Humans, Job satisfaction, Male, Middle aged, Physicians, Prospective studies, Records as topic, School admission criteria, Self-assessment, Students, Medical},
        abstract = {Personal statements and referees' reports are widely used on medical school application forms, particularly in the UK, to assess the suitability of candidates for a career in medicine. However there are few studies which assess the validity of such information for predicting unhappiness or dissatisfaction with a career in medicine. Here we combine data from a long-term prospective study of medical student selection and training, with an experimental approach in which a large number of assessors used a paired comparison technique to predict outcome.}
}