Academic and personal characteristics as predictors of clinical success in medical school.
Interviewer ratings of personal characteristics such as maturity correlated with clinical success, and were more important in determining clinical success than were conventional cognitive variables of grade point average or MCAT scores for five classes of University of Missouri-Columbia medical students.
D000124:Achievement; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical