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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Coaching and admission to medical schools

While on interesting journal articles, this study was published by Barbara Griffin et al in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. (Remember, you need to register for access to this journal, but it's all free). "Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and retesting on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school"
The study was based at the University of Western Sydney and concluded that coaching and retesting improved UMAT scores only slightly in the non-verbal reasoning section of the paper, and may even have hindered candidates' performance on an MMI.

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