Methods of Selecting Students for Medical School and Performance after Admission. Follow-up Study at Yamaguchi University. 1. Relation between Characteristics at Entrance Examination and Performance after Admission.
- VernacularTitle:医学部における入学者選抜方法と入学後の経過について 山口大学における追跡調査から （１）入学形態と入学後成績，進級，国試合否との関連
- Author:
Noriaki HARADA
;
Minoru NAKAMOTO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
entrance examination;
medical school records;
repeater;
drop-out;
national examination for medical practitioners
- From:Medical Education
1997;28(1):35-40
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
A follow-up study of the relation between methods of selecting medical students and performance after admission was investigated. The subjects were 318 students who had entered our medical school from 1987 through 1989. Two hundred fiftynine students had passed open entrance examinations and 59 students had passed special examinations for those who had been recommended by their high school principals. We found that students who had earned a degree other than a medical degree had the best performance, as measured by academic records, promotion, and results of the national examination for medical practitioners. They were followed in descending order by students who had been admitted upon recommendations of high school principals, students who had passed open entrance examinations immediately after graduation from high school, students who had prepared for entrance examinations for 1 or 2 years after high school, and students who had prepared for 3 years or more.
