Clinical reading and writing skills of junior medical students

Flaherty, Joseph A.; Rezler, Agnes G.; McGuire, Carson

doi:10.1097/00001888-198211000-00005

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“…The importance of science problem-solving skills was greater in the early years of medical school, but this importance diminished over a long period of time. Flaherty et al (1982) demonstrated that the best predictors of students' clinical writing performance were their entry-level skills, specifically reading and writing abilities.…”

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Selecting students for medical school: What predicts success during basic science studies? A cognitive approach

1996

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This study focuses on differences between multiple-choice science tests and a learning-from-text (LFT) test, and how these tests predict success in basic medical studies. The subjects (N = 503) were applicants to the Helsinki University Medical Faculty. All of them had to take an entrance examination in order to be considered for admission to a 6-year study programme combining medical school and graduate studies. The entrance examination consisted of three traditional multiple-choice science tests and one LFF test, the latter designed to measure deep-level processing of text. A follow-up study was conducted in order to see how the different tasks were related to the grades and pace of studying of those who were accepted onto the programme.As hypothesized, there were very high correlations among the three multiple-choice tests, but no correlations between the LFr subtasks and the multiple-choice tests. LISREL analyses showed that the LFT Synthesis Task, designed to measure the ability to pull together the essentials of a text, was the best predictor of academic progress during basic science studies.

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Selecting students for medical school: What predicts success during basic science studies? A cognitive approach

1996

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“…A longitudinal study conducted at the University of Illinois by Flaherty et al 8 . investigated the reading and writing skills of 231 incoming undergraduate medical students.…”

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The evaluation of undergraduate students' written English language skills

Chur‐Hansen

Vernon-Roberts

2000

Med Educ

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“…They are able to do this largely because the decisions required of them are few and narrowly defined. Flaherty et al 17 reported a decline in writing and reading skill of junior medical students over the last 10 years. Vu and Galofre 18 noted that there is no program for lifelong learning in medical school.…”

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An experiment in outpatient subspecialty medical student education

MacKinney

1993

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

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Clinical reading and writing skills of junior medical students

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Selecting students for medical school: What predicts success during basic science studies? A cognitive approach

Selecting students for medical school: What predicts success during basic science studies? A cognitive approach

The evaluation of undergraduate students' written English language skills

An experiment in outpatient subspecialty medical student education

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