Dear Kieran

This article may be useful for you:

Factors associated with success in medical school: systematic review of the literature. Eamonn Ferguson, David James, and Laura Madeley, ; BMJ 2002;324:952

Thanks Chris yes I do mean value for money. But I am not sure if someone would fund such an SR. If you do have thoughts on this, please do let me know.

I will have a look at the papers - much appreciated.

BW,

Kieran

The true problem is using admission criteria and developing methods for evaluating spiritual-moral and affective maturity of students and the psychological skills necessary for being admitted. Medicine is not a bio-technology.

Moreover there is tendency to interpret Schools of Medicine like a business, not a mission, to date dominated by an obsolete deterministic, epistemological approach, overcame by Person Centered Medicine

We discuss this topic on August 30 in an International Workshop

You could participate.   www.unambro.it

Giuseppe R. Brera