Guest Editorial: Selecting medical students who will become general practitioners: is the aptitude test suitable?

Who will teach the medical students?

Helping Students Become Skilled Practitioners

Becoming a skilled practitioner means learning both conceptual and process knowledge. We propose the use of hypermedia to provide components of an apprenticeship learning model for students, in which process and conceptual knowledge learning is integrated. Our model for this use of hypermedia is called an Apprenticeship Based Learning Environment (ABLE). We present seven design principles for a...

Attitude of medical students towards general practice and general practitioners.

BACKGROUND The stimuli for this work came from the need to identify and understand the origin of students' attitudes towards general practice in the context of undergraduate curriculum reform and concerns about recruitment. AIM To evaluate attitudes of medical students towards general practice as a specialty and general practitioners (GPs) as doctors and explore factors influencing students' ...

Practical Dermatology for Medical Students and General Practitioners

That a useful book need not be very big is proved by books like this. In 25 short chapters and a short section on Systemic Medication the author has succeeded in telling students and general practitioners all about the subject. This success he has achieved by keeping the text under control and by providing pictures of a high quality. Perhaps the text deserves greater praise : marginal headings ...

The predictive validity of the aptitude test for the performance of students starting a medical curriculum.

INTRODUCTION Selection of medical students varies between German- and French-speaking Swiss faculties. Geneva introduced an aptitude test in 2010, aimed at helping decision making among students. The test was compulsory: it had to be taken by those who intended to register for medical studies. But it was not selective: there was no performance threshold under which registration would have been ...