Obstructive sleep apnoea--getting to the heart of the matter?

My view is that we should continue to select medical students based on criteria that include desirable personal qualities, using procedures that have demonstrated reliability and validity. We also need to build into medical curricula objective barrier assessments of professional skills and personal qualities relevant to future medical practice. If we do this, we will not only graduate doctors who have the required skills, but we will have the appropriate outcome measures against which to evaluate our personal qualities selection procedure. If we elect not to take these two steps, we will be destined to go through yet another cycle of questioning selection methods. Campbell and colleagues’ 1974 comments will be reprised by others.