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Correlation between admission criteria, and academic performance, in students of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Manizales (Colombia)

Correlación entre criterios de admisión, y desempeño académico, en estudiantes de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Manizales (Colombia)





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Castaño Castrillón, J. J. (2008). Correlation between admission criteria, and academic performance, in students of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Manizales (Colombia). Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 8(2), 134-148. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.8.2.1329.2008
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Castaño Castrillón, J. J. (2008). Correlation between admission criteria, and academic performance, in students of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Manizales (Colombia). Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 8(2), 134-148. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.8.2.1329.2008

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José Jaime Castaño Castrillón

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the correlation between admission criteria in the Medicine Faculty of the University of Manizales (Colombia) and the variables of academic performance of the admitted students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The population
consisted of 13 cohorts of admitted students of the Faculty between years 2000 and 2007. The considered variables of admission were basically scores in knowledge and personality tests, interviews, and in government examinations for entrance to the superior education (ICFES) and a weighed sum of these variables. As academic performance variables, averages of notes for each semester and the complete study(or until the moment of this study) for each student, and ciphers corresponding to main biomedical lesson in the same circumstances. RESULTS: In 9 (81.8%) of 11 occasions the weighed ICFES score showed significant correlation with the variables of academic
performance. The test results of personality test showed significant correlation in 3 (2.7%), the interview score in 1, the knowledge score in no case, the sum weighed in 3 (2.7%) occasions. CONCLUSION: In view of these results a new procedure of student’s admission is proposed.

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