Factors affecting the utility of the multiple mini-interview in selecting candidates for graduate-entry medical school

Roberts, Chris; Walton, Merrilyn; Rothnie, Imogene; Crossley, James; Lyon, Patricia M.; Kumar, Koshila; Tiller, David J.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03018.x

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“…Generalizability analyses have repeatedly indicated that MMIs with greater numbers of stations will have greater reliability (Eva et al 2004c;Roberts et al 2008;Sebok et al 2013). …”

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Evidence regarding the utility of multiple mini-interview (MMI) for selection to undergraduate health programs: A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 37

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“…Generalizability analyses have repeatedly indicated that MMIs with greater numbers of stations will have greater reliability (Eva et al 2004c;Roberts et al 2008;Sebok et al 2013). …”

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Evidence regarding the utility of multiple mini-interview (MMI) for selection to undergraduate health programs: A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 37

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“…They oversaw, for example, the prior and clear understanding of the definition of the selection criteria for each dimension, the questions to be asked, the interview structure, the previous training of the interviewers and the assessment guidelines. In truth, this is not very different from the recommendations that were recently addressed to MMI, 3,37,41 which highlight the importance of a careful and rigourous design. Equally, it is imperative to meet the need to align the vision and mission of medical schools with the students who are selected.…”

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Associations Between the Big Five Personality Traits and a Medical School Admission Interview

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Introduction: Personality has became popular in medical student's selection. However, few research exists about the association between the big five personality traits and the existent medical school selection tools. Our aim was to study which personality traits were selected by a medical school admission interview. Material and Methods: One hundred ninety four graduate applicants that had applied to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto through the graduate entry approach, after ranked on previous achievement, were interviewed between the academic years of 2011 and 2013. From these, 181 (93.3%) answered to the NEO Five-Factor Inventory that assesses high order personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Admission interview corresponded to the second phase of the seriation process. Every applicant was interviewed and scored by three interviewers on seven dimensions asesssed by Lickert scale (1-10). Interview score was the sum of the dimensions. Linear mixed effects model and respective regression coefficients were used to estimate the association between personality traits from each interviewer's score. Final models were adjusted for gender, interviewers and previous achievement.Results: Openness to experience (Beta = 0.18: CI 95%: 0.05; 0.30) had the strongest association with interview score followed by the interaction effect between the extraversion and conscientiousness traits (Beta = 0.14; CI 95%: 0.02; 0.25). Also, applicants scored higher when their gender was opposite to the interviewers. Discussion: Previous achievement and interview score had no association. Conclusion: Our admission interview selected different personality traits when compared to other selection tools. Medical schools should be aware of the implications of the adopted selection tools on the admitted medical student's personality because it can help providing beneficial interventions.

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“…Moreover, research indicates that examiner subjectivity and station difficulty would have affected the fairness of the test in MMIs [11,16]. In addition, there may be some personal factors that are related to the candidate’s performance in MMIs, such as cultural and social background, and his or her personality [10,17,18].…”

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Does the sequence of rotations in Multiple Mini Interview stations influence the candidates’ performance?

Kim

Kwon

2018

Medical Education Online

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In Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs), the candidates start out with different stations depending on the sequence of rotation they are assigned; thus, their perceived difficulty level and nervousness with their first station may differ. We examined whether such differences influenced the candidates’ overall performance in the MMI. A 32-item questionnaire was developed and administered to candidates for admission interviews at a medical school regarding their perceptions of the MMI. Candidates’ interview scores were also obtained and were compared across groups who differed in the sequence of rotation of MMI stations. Candidates felt nervous when they encountered the first station, which did not differ regardless of which station was their first encounter. Candidates were neutral regarding whether their first station was more difficult than the others and about whether its difficulty level influenced their overall performance in the test. Although candidates’ perceived station difficulty differed across stations, there were no differences in their performance in each station between those it was their first station and those it was not. Candidates’ total interview scores also did not differ across groups of different sequence of rotations. The MMI is a fair process as it does not give disadvantage to those who encounter a more difficult station than others for their first station.

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Factors affecting the utility of the multiple mini-interview in selecting candidates for graduate-entry medical school

Cited by 107 publications

References 30 publications

Evidence regarding the utility of multiple mini-interview (MMI) for selection to undergraduate health programs: A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 37

Evidence regarding the utility of multiple mini-interview (MMI) for selection to undergraduate health programs: A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 37

Associations Between the Big Five Personality Traits and a Medical School Admission Interview

Does the sequence of rotations in Multiple Mini Interview stations influence the candidates’ performance?

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