Academic performance and career choices of older medical students at the University of Otago

To compare the academic performance and postgraduate career choices of a cohort of medical students who are older and more life experienced at time of medical school entry ("Other Category" students) with students admitted through standard entry admission pathways. Examination performance,...

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Age Factors
Career Choice
Chi-Square Distribution
Clinical Competence
Cohort Studies
College students
Competition
Confidence Intervals
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Educational Measurement
Entrance examinations
Female
Health sciences
Humans
Male
Medical schools
New Zealand
Odds Ratio
Physicians
Retrospective Studies
Schools, Medical - manpower
Statistical methods
Students, Medical - statistics & numerical data
Workforce
Young Adult
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