Evaluating the validity of the selection measures used for the UK's foundation medical training programme: a national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Currently relative performance at medical school (educational performance measure (EPM) decile), additional educational achievements and the score on a situational judgement test (SJT) are used to rank applicants to the UK Foundation Years postgraduate medical training programme. We sought to evaluate whether these three measures were predictive of subsequent successful completion of the programme, and thus were valid selection criteria.

Methods

Data were obtained from the UK Medical Education Database (UKMED) on 14 131 UK applicants to the foundation programme starting in 2013 and 2014. These data included training outcomes in the form of Annual Reviews of Competency Progression (ARCPs), which indicated whether the programme was successfully completed. The relati

SUBMITTER: Smith DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082493 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature