title: Can the multiple mini-interview predict academic achievement in medical school?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to determine whether the multiple mini-interview (MMI) predicts academic achievement for subjects in a medical school curriculum.
  
  
  METHODS
  Of 49 students who were admitted in 2008, 46 students finished the entire medical education curriculum within 4 years. We calculated the Pearson correlation coefficients between the total MMI score of the 46 graduates and their academic achievements in all subjects of the curriculum.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The correlation coefficients between total MMI score and academic achievement in Medical Interview and History Taking, Problem-Based Learning, Doctoring I, and Clinical Practice of Surgery ranged from 0.4 to 0.7, indicating that they were moderately related. The values between total MMI score and achievement in Research Overview, Technical and Procedural Skills, Clinical Performance Examinations 1 and 3, Clinical Practice of Laboratory Medicine and Psychiatry, Neurology, and Orthopedics ranged from 0.2 to 0.4, which meant that they were weakly related.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MMI score can predict medical student' academic achievement in subjects in the medical humanities and clinical practice.
authors: Departments of Pediatrics, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.
authors: Ja Kyoung
authors: JK
authors: Kim
authors: Departments of Medical Education, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.
authors: Seok Hoon
authors: SH
authors: Kang
authors: Pharmacology, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.
authors: Hee Jae
authors: HJ
authors: Lee
authors: Departments of Medical Education, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.
authors: JeongHee
authors: J
authors: Yang
keywords: Academic achievement; Medical schools; Multiple mini-interview