title: UK medical selection: lottery or meritocracy?
abstract: From senior school through to consultancy, a plethora of assessments shape medical careers. Multiple methods of assessment are used to discriminate between applicants. Medical selection in the UK appears to be moving increasingly towards non-knowledge-based testing at all career stages. We review the evidence for non-knowledge-based tests and discuss their perceived benefits. We raise the question: is the current use of non-knowledge-based tests within the UK at risk of undermining more robust measures of medical school and postgraduate performance?
authors: John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, and non-stipendiary lecturer, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK benjamin.harris@medsci.ox.ac.uk.
authors: Benjamin H L
authors: BH
authors: Harris
authors: University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
authors: Jason L
authors: JL
authors: Walsh
authors: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, and ST1 neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
authors: Simon
authors: S
authors: Lammy
mesh_terms: D001077:Aptitude Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: BMAT; GAMSAT; Medical selection; UKCAT; situational judgement tests
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