Measuring participation in UK medical schools
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《英国医生杂志》
EDITOR—In a 600 word short report it was not possible to provide a detailed analysis of medical school admissions data. Such analyses are provided in the articles referenced in the report.
Our purpose was to share a tool that we developed to analyse admissions by ethnic group, sex, and social class by using publicly available data and offering some illustrative worked examples. The standardised admission ratio could of course be used alongside other measures (such as the biomedical admissions test (BMAT), A level performance, school deprivation index, etc) to test systematically the speculative hypotheses which the above authors have raised, and thereby throw light rather than heat on the widening debate on participation.
This work began as a medical student's project—perhaps another student might like to pick up the challenge?
Trisha Greenhalgh, professor
Department of Primary Health Care, University College London, London N19 5LW p.greenhalgh@pcps.ucl.ac.uk
Danny Dorling, visiting professor in social medicine
University of Bristol, Bristol
Our purpose was to share a tool that we developed to analyse admissions by ethnic group, sex, and social class by using publicly available data and offering some illustrative worked examples. The standardised admission ratio could of course be used alongside other measures (such as the biomedical admissions test (BMAT), A level performance, school deprivation index, etc) to test systematically the speculative hypotheses which the above authors have raised, and thereby throw light rather than heat on the widening debate on participation.
This work began as a medical student's project—perhaps another student might like to pick up the challenge?
Trisha Greenhalgh, professor
Department of Primary Health Care, University College London, London N19 5LW p.greenhalgh@pcps.ucl.ac.uk
Danny Dorling, visiting professor in social medicine
University of Bristol, Bristol