Why is Casper even a thing?

[anxious_premed44]

I’d love to see the science they used to validate the thing. It feels entirely like the creation of HR busy bodies that need to justify their positions within the bureaucracy.

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[Mr.Smile12]

Start with

CASPer, an online pre-interview screen for personal/professional characteristics: prediction of national licensure scores - PubMed

Typically, only a minority of applicants to health professional training are invited to interview. However, pre-interview measures of cognitive skills predict for national licensure scores (Gauer et al. in Med Educ Online 21 2016) and subsequently licensure scores predict for performance in...

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[Mr.Smile12]

Abstracts from the 2023 AAMC Annual Meeting include a few on PREview.

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...

journals.lww.com

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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[Dantes]

You'd be right. It's another hoop to jump through for a competitive admissions process and a way to squeeze out more money from applicants, similar to what Step 2 CS used to be.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Saying with tongue in cheek, I concede there is a cost of doing business.

Fees Overview

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AAMC Fee Assistance Program Expanding with 60% ERAS Application Discount

The AAMC announced that in 2024, it will extend our Fee Assistance Program to residency applicants using the Electronic Residency Application Service®.

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