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Assessing Students for Medical School Admissions: Is It Time for a New Approach?*

Our methods for admitting students, whether to medical school or even to undergraduate and graduate school, are rather archaic. We use tests that we know are only modestly to moderately predictive of success in medical school and that measure content that covers only a small fraction of the skills necessary for success as a medical professional. Might there be more effective ways of devising devices to help us make decisions in admissions situations?