title: A new admission method may select applicants with a distinct personality profile.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is little data to suggest that a specific admission method can select students with a distinct personality profile. We have recently introduced a new admission process that combines a computerized personality test, with a single interview. The purpose of the current study was to find whether the new method selects applicants with a different personality profile and attitudes compared with the previous method.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using a validated personality questionnaire (HEXACO) and attitudes questionnair, that were filled anonymously between November 2014 and May 2015, the authors compared two groups of students: group A comprising students accepted with the new method (first and second year) with group B comprising students accepted with the previous method (third to sixth year).
  
  
  RESULTS
  In group A, 157 responded out of 250 (63%), while in group B 194 out of 352 (55%). Group A students ranked significantly higher in honesty-humility, extraversion, agreeableness and openness to experience, and lower in emotionality. Physicians' role in society was perceived to be more meaningful among Group A students (M = 4.19, SD = 0.50, N = 152) compared to Group B students (M = 3.86, SD = 0.57, N = 184).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The new method may select applicants with a distinct personality profile and different attitudes toward the physicians' role in the society.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences , Ben Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva , Israel.
authors.forename: Aya G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Talmor
authors.affiliation: b TIL™ , Israel.
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Falk
authors.affiliation: c Medical Intensive Care Unit , Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva , Israel.
authors.forename: Yaniv
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Almog
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D010556:Personality Tests; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*