National Medical School Matching Program: optimizing outcomes

The medical school admissions process is inefficient and costly to both applicants and medical schools. For the many rejected applicants, this process represents a costly, unproductive use of time. For medical schools, numerous applications are reviewed that ultimately do not yield matriculants, rep...

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Autores principales: Eltorai, Adam EM, Daniels, Alan H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27445512
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S108074
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description The medical school admissions process is inefficient and costly to both applicants and medical schools. For the many rejected applicants, this process represents a costly, unproductive use of time. For medical schools, numerous applications are reviewed that ultimately do not yield matriculants, representing a substantial inefficiency. In order to streamline the process and reduce costs, we propose the development of a national medical school matching program.
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spelling pubmed-49368052016-07-21 National Medical School Matching Program: optimizing outcomes Eltorai, Adam EM Daniels, Alan H Adv Med Educ Pract Commentary The medical school admissions process is inefficient and costly to both applicants and medical schools. For the many rejected applicants, this process represents a costly, unproductive use of time. For medical schools, numerous applications are reviewed that ultimately do not yield matriculants, representing a substantial inefficiency. In order to streamline the process and reduce costs, we propose the development of a national medical school matching program. Dove Medical Press 2016-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4936805/ /pubmed/27445512 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S108074 Text en © 2016 Eltorai and Daniels. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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