2024 AAMC PREview news and webinars

[Mr.Smile12]

From the AAMC PREview team:

The AAMC PREview® Professional Readiness Exam is designed to look beyond academic metrics to assess and evaluate professional competencies such as resilience and adaptability, service orientation, ethical responsibility to self and others, empathy and compassion, cultural awareness, cultural humility, and teamwork and collaboration, among others. A growing number of U.S. medical schools have adopted the AAMC PREview® exam into their admissions processes.

PREview exam registration will open on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at approximately 10 a.m. ET.

Please note that the following policy changes have been made for the 2024 testing year:

• Examinees are allowed to retest one (1) time per testing year.
• There is a new lifetime maximum of four (4) times to take the exam.
• Examinees who have been approved for the AAMC Financial Assistance Program can take the first exam free of charge; future attempts will be at a 50% discount.

For students: PREview® Nuts-n-Bolts: Scheduling and Taking the AAMC PREview Professional Readiness Exam on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. ET

Please feel free to contact us with any questions at [email protected].

Sincerely,
The AAMC PREview Team

NB. Past threads:
AAMC PREview exam expands in 2023

AAMC situational judgement test for 2022-2023 is now called "PREview"

The AAMC's situational judgement test for the 2022-2023 application year is now called PREview. 18 schools will "encourage or require" you to complete this exam. Read your school's website carefully to determine their requirements. If your list does not include these schools, you won't need to...

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[wysdoc]

From the AAMC PREview team:

The AAMC PREview® Professional Readiness Exam is designed to look beyond academic metrics to assess and evaluate professional competencies such as resilience and adaptability, service orientation, ethical responsibility to self and others, empathy and compassion, cultural awareness, cultural humility, and teamwork and collaboration, among others. A growing number of U.S. medical schools have adopted the AAMC PREview® exam into their admissions processes.

PREview exam registration will open on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at approximately 10 a.m. ET.

Please note that the following policy changes have been made for the 2024 testing year:

• Examinees are allowed to retest one (1) time per testing year.
• There is a new lifetime maximum of four (4) times to take the exam.
• Examinees who have been approved for the AAMC Financial Assistance Program can take the first exam free of charge; future attempts will be at a 50% discount.

For students: PREview® Nuts-n-Bolts: Scheduling and Taking the AAMC PREview Professional Readiness Exam on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. ET

Please feel free to contact us with any questions at [email protected].

Sincerely,
The AAMC PREview Team

Do you know when they will have a list of schools which will require it?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

This is the time when the admissions offices are deciding to add the SJT requirement (or recommendation) to their process for the 2025 cycle. Last year's pattern should be followed: preliminary list by March, finalized list before the new MSAR comes out and AMCAS opens in May.

I'm guessing this will be addressed in the webinar; there is also one for advisors.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

A reminder of our article on PREview

How to Prepare for PREview - SDN

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[Tikopia]

sorry if this has been covered already, but if you took Preview last year but are applying this upcoming cycle, do you have to retake it? Or is the score good for several years (like the MCAT)

 

[Mr.Smile12]

sorry if this has been covered already, but if you took Preview last year but are applying this upcoming cycle, do you have to retake it? Or is the score good for several years (like the MCAT)

The exam is designed to have a score work for more than one cycle (I think it's 3 years similar to the MCAT), but the adcoms at the schools will/ should set the policies on how old they would take scores. However, I don't think there is any data yet showing how they would take multiple scores (average, newest, best?).

 

[Mr.Smile12]

If you are able to overcome the firewall, I would like access...

Designing a Situational Judgment Test for Use in Medical... : Academic Medicine

to assess these competencies, which occur after about half of the applicant pool has already been screened out. In this article, the authors discuss the development, evaluation, and launch of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) situational judgment test (SJT) for use in medical...

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Predicting Medical Student Performance With a Situational... : Academic Medicine

7. Outcomes included research-only faculty ratings of student performance, final course grades, and faculty evaluations of student performance, 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 academic years. Bivariate correlations were used to investigate the relationship between SJT scores and student performance...

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Evaluating a Situational Judgment Test for Use in Medical... : Academic Medicine

icant pools. Method Data from the 2020 and 2021 PREview exam administrations were analyzed. Two U.S. schools participated in the PREview pilot in 2020 and 6 U.S. schools participated in 2021. PREview scores were paired with data from the American Medical College Application Service...

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[Mr.Smile12]

Roughly 80% of all AMCAS applicants were asked to take PREview last year.

We expect the schools who participated last year to continue this year. Additional schools are being recruited for this upcoming cycle.

Additional resources:
* An additional practice PREview exam is now available on the AAMC PREview website!
* An additional video educates test-takers about what to expect about their test-taking experience is also available.
* Examinees can only take PREview a maximum of 4 times. Voids count towards this limit.
* Schools have yet to set a consistent policy on how long they would consider a PREview score "valid." AAMC/AMCAS will not set this policy, but the design of the test (based on reliability) is meant to have schools be valid over multiple cycles or a time longer than at least 1 year.
* For non-AMCAS schools using PREview, you must approve those programs to receive scores. Historically, Des Moines DO program is the sole example. Additional schools -- such as TMDSAS or AACOMAS -- are pending. Their new score reporting portal is working well. One can select these schools on exam day or later in the cycle.

Trying to clarify:
* Voids count against the annual limit of 2 attempts per year and 4 lifetime attempts.
* If an examinee no-shows for an exam, they can still register again for up to 2 times within the testing year. They will have to pay at the reschedule rate.
* All AMCAS schools will be able to see PREview scores after the application cycle is complete (like a year after).

Examinee webinar is February 8. Please register with the link provided earlier in this thread.