School of Medicine

Yr Ysgol Meddygaeth

College of Biomedical Life SciencesCollege of Biomedical and Life Sciences

Admissions – the new process and multiple mini

interviewsProfessor Dave Wilson, Dr Sue Emerson on behalf of the Admissions Group

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Applications - numbers

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Applications - numbers

Wales domiciled students 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

Applicants to Medicine 660 570 570

Applicants to Cardiff 333 269 288

Interviewed 213 178 213

Received offer 84 87 130

Declined our offer 8 9

Converted to a place 60 61

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Admissions - Aim

To select the best students for the school through a reliable, fair

and robust method

Admissions policy aims to ensure that

“the process of student selection is

objective, transparent, open, fair and free from

discrimination of any kind”

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• Previous interview with 3 members of panel, inconsistent (despite our best efforts!)

• Considerable evidence suggests more reliable method

• Fairer and more consistent for candidates (increased number of assessors reduces risk of selection bias)

Admissions – Why change?

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• Allows more time between candidates and assessors - enhanced opportunity for candidates to demonstrate attributes and skills

• More robust and defendable if complaint/appeal

• Increases diversity

• Medical Schools Council encouraged medical schools to adopt MMIs (around two-thirds already use them)

Students are selected to reach interview stage by obtaining a high score based on their GCSEs

Admissions – Why change?

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• Variant forms of MMIs

• Cardiff has nine stations, each 6-minutes long with two 3-minute questions, covering 11 domains

• Ran them over 3 weeks, before Christmas and two weeks in January, interviewing 1277 applicants

• Candidates then ranked according to their score

• 602 offers made (551 home ; 51 overseas) for approx. 290 places

The multiple mini-interviews

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Cardiff: selection domains– MMI stations

Caerdydd: dethol ar gyfer meddygaeth – safleoedd

MMI Numeracy

Communication skills

Critical thinking

SJT

Resilience

Social awareness

• empathy

• resilience

• ethics

• reasoning

• numeracy

• insight into medical

career

• team working

• NHS/NHS in Wales

• Cardiff and curriculum

• communication

• self-directedness

These domains are qualities that we, GMC, MSC and NHS VBR consider important to be present in medical students and future doctorsAll of the stations marked communication skills and two other domainsBest-practice of MMIs from others using them

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Blueprinting

Question writing

Pre-scrutiny meeting

Copy editing

MMIs

Post MMI scrutiny

Verification of decisions to make offers

Post MMI review and

analysis

Process of developing the MMIs

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Diolch am wrando

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If interested in joining

please contact Dr Sue

Emerson on:

EmersonS@Cardiff.ac.uk

Regional Groups

Seren hubs

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Criterion-referenced marking