Entry to medical school a the gender question. What has happened?
| dc.contributor.author | O‘Flynn, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mills, A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fitzgerald, AP | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-27T10:29:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-27T10:29:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-09 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/302401 | |
| dc.description | Reform of medical school selection has generated concerns that the process favours male applicants. The gender profile, HPAT -Ireland and Leaving Certificate scores of all applicants in 2009 -2011 (n=9582) and the gender profile of entrants from 2008 -2011 is presented. Small gender differences favouring males are evident in total HPAT-Ireland scores and subsection scores less than 7 and 4 points respectively with a total selection score impact of approximately 0.8%. In relation to Leaving Certificate performance, since 2009, eligible male applicants to medicine have tended to outperform females with less than 3 points mean difference which has an impact close to 0.7% as selection is still weighted in favour of this test. The gender profile of applicants securing a place has varied annually. Reforms may have inadvertently altered the gender distribution in medical school but there is no evidence that this is entirely attributable to the HPAT-Ireland test. | en_GB |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Irish Medical Journal | en_GB |
| dc.subject | GENDER | en_GB |
| dc.subject | EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS | en_GB |
| dc.title | Entry to medical school a the gender question. What has happened? | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | Irish Medical Journal | en_GB |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-23T07:56:56Z |
