ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION AssociationBetweenaMedicalSchoolAdmission Process Using the Multiple Mini-interview and National Licensing Examination Scores

MODERN CONCEPTIONS OF medical practice demand more of practitioners than a strong knowledge base. By emphasizing compassionate care, professionalism, and interpersonal skill, theAccreditationCouncil for Graduate Medical Education core competencies indicate that physicians are expected to possess strong personal qualities distinct from academic achievement. There is evidenceof a link between these aspects of practice and quality of care. At the level of medical school admissions, incoming grade point average (GPA) and Medical College Admission Test results have been found to be reasonably good determinants of academic success. More problematic, however, has been the identification of measures capable of predicting nonacademic success despite the considerable resources most medical schools allocate to interviewing applicants. Most validity studies in this domain are correlational in nature. Interpretation of the resulting statistics is difficult because restriction of range low-