title: A short interview as an assessment of student health and potential.
abstract: A prospective study of the effectiveness of a short interview in assessing health needs and potential performance of students. The results indicate that such an interview is of limited value in the recognition of the vulnerable student, can predict performance of the best students with reasonable accuracy, can recognise potential drop-outs, but failed to distinguish in a borderline group between those likely to succeed and those not.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013332:Student Dropouts; D013337:Students, Medical