1997 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 35-40
A follow-up study of the relation between methods of selecting medical students and performance after admission was investigated. The subjects were 318 students who had entered our medical school from 1987 through 1989. Two hundred fiftynine students had passed open entrance examinations and 59 students had passed special examinations for those who had been recommended by their high school principals. We found that students who had earned a degree other than a medical degree had the best performance, as measured by academic records, promotion, and results of the national examination for medical practitioners. They were followed in descending order by students who had been admitted upon recommendations of high school principals, students who had passed open entrance examinations immediately after graduation from high school, students who had prepared for entrance examinations for 1 or 2 years after high school, and students who had prepared for 3 years or more.
