The Validity of Scores From the New MCAT Exam in Predicting Student Performance: Results From a Multisite Study.

Purpose: The new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) was introduced in April 2015. This report presents findings from the first study of the validity of scores from the new MCAT exam in predicting student performance in the first year of medical school (M1).

Method: The authors analyzed data from the national population of 2016 matriculants with scores from the new MCAT exam (N = 7,970) and the sample of 2016 matriculants (N = 955) from 16 medical schools who volunteered to participate in the validity research.

Traditional Panel Interview versus Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) in Medical School Admissions: Does Performance differ by Age, Gender, Urban or Rural, or Socioeconomic Status (Findings from one medical school).

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Introduction: Globally, medical schools are trying to widen access and to increase the diversity of their student body to be more representative of the population and to meet the future heath care needs of society.

Does rural generalist focused medical school and family medicine training make a difference? Memorial University of Newfoundland outcomes.

Introduction: Rural recruitment and retention of physicians is a global issue. The Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, was established as a rural-focused medical school with a social accountability mandate that aimed to meet the healthcare needs of a sparse population distributed over a large landmass as well as the needs of other rural and remote areas of Canada. This study aimed to assess whether Memorial medical degree (MD) and postgraduate (PG) programs were effective at producing physicians for their province and rural physicians for Canada compared with other Canadian medical schools.

From pipelines to pathways: the Memorial experience in educating doctors for rural generalist practice.

Context: This report describes the community context, concept and mission of The Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Memorial), Canada, and its 'pathways to rural practice' approach, which includes influences at the pre-medical school, medical school experience, postgraduate residency training, and physician practice levels. Memorial's pathways to practice helped Memorial to fulfill its social accountability mandate to populate the province with highly skilled rural generalist practitioners. Programs/interventions/initiatives: The 'pathways to rural practice' include initiatives in four stages: (1) before admission to medical school; (2) during undergraduate medical training (medical degree (MD) program); (3) during postgraduate vocational residency training; and (4) after postgraduate vocational residency training.

Pathways to rural family practice at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Objective: To assess Memorial University of Newfoundland's (MUN's) commitment to a comprehensive pathways approach to rural family practice, and to determine the national and provincial effects of applying this approach.

Design: Analysis of anonymized secondary data.

Setting: Canada.

A randomized controlled trial of the effect of an intensive 1-year care management program on measures of health status in independent, community-living old elderly: the Eldercare project.

Background: Primary care practitioners are familiar with the frail elderly and commonly have to deal with their multi-morbidity and their functional decline, both physically and mentally. However, there are well elderly with high quality of life and very few co-morbidities who seldom seek medical care.

Objective: To determine if a nurse-based program of home-delivered care, linked directly with the primary care practitioner or primary care team, would improve quality of life, symptoms, satisfaction with care and utilization of community and medical services, in independent community living old elderly.

The healthy aged: Descriptive analysis by sex of cognitively functioning elderly patients 80 years and older living independently in the community.

Objective: To describe a population of cognitively functioning seniors aged 80 years and older who are livingin dependently in the community.

Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study based on the enrolment cohort of a randomized controlled trial.

Setting: St John's, Nfld.

Physicians as parents: parenting experiences of physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Objective: To investigate the experiences of physicians as parents and to see if there were any differences in the parenting challenges perceived by male and female physicians.

Design: Mailed survey.

Setting: Newfoundland and Labrador.

Physicians as mothers: breastfeeding practices of physician-mothers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Objective: To determine the initiation rate and duration of breastfeeding among female physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador, and to identify demographic factors that might influence duration of breastfeeding in this population.

Design: Mailed survey.

Setting: Newfoundland and Labrador.

A comparative analysis of the perceived continuing medical education needs of a cohort of rural and urban Canadian family physicians.

Objective: To assess the perceived continuing medical education (CME) needs of a cohort of Canadian family physicians.

Methods: We distributed a questionnaire survey to Canadian family physicians who became Certificant members of the College of Family Physicians in 2001 and practised outside the province of Quebec. Main outcome measures were self-reported CME needs, professional development needs and preferences for CME delivery methods.