TY  - JOUR
TI  - Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted by selectors from medical school application forms: a prospective, longitudinal study.
N1  - © 2005 McManus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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N2  - 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.
ID  - discovery61731
KW  - Adult
KW  -  Career choice
KW  -  Consensus
KW  -  Educational status
KW  -  Female
KW  -  Forecasting
KW  -  Great Britain
KW  -  Happiness
KW  -  Humans
KW  -  Job satisfaction
KW  -  Male
KW  -  Middle aged
KW  -  Physicians
KW  -  Prospective studies
KW  -  Records as topic
KW  -  School admission criteria
KW  -  Self-assessment
KW  -  Students
KW  -  Medical
JF  - BMC Medical Education
SN  - 1472-6920
VL  - 5
AV  - public
Y1  - 2005///
A1  - McManus, IC
A1  - Iqbal, S
A1  - Chandrarajan, A
A1  - Ferguson, E
A1  - Leaviss, J
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-5-38
ER  -