BMJ  2006;332 (29 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7548.0-d

Predicting the "strugglers" in medical school

Late acceptance onto an undergraduate medical course and the presence of "negative comments" in the academic reference may be risk factors for performing less well in medical school. Yates and James (p 1009) compared undergraduate medical students from Nottingham University who had experienced difficulties on their course with non-struggling students from the same course to identify potential predictors of struggling. The authors say that their results support retention of existing selection practices relating to academic achievement and critical review of students' references.

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Predicting the "strugglers": a case-control study of students at Nottingham University Medical School

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