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Predictive validity of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test for medical students’ academic performance

Barry N J Walters
Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5) || doi: 10.5694/mja11.10565
Published online: 5 September 2011

To the Editor: The finding of Wilkinson and colleagues1 that the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) score and medical school performance are only weakly correlated came as no surprise.

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  • School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA.



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  • 1. Wilkinson D, Zhang J, Parker P. Predictive validity of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test for medical students’ academic performance. Med J Aust 2011; 194: 341-344. <MJA full text>

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