- Title
- Trial use of the personal qualities assessment (PQA) in the entrance examination of a Japanese medical university: similarities to the results in Western countries
- Creator
- Fukui, Yuriko; Noda, Saeko; Okada, Midori; Mihara, Nakako; Kawakami, Yoriko; Bore, Miles; Munro, Don; Powis, David
- Relation
- Teaching and Learning in Medicine Vol. 26, Issue 4, p. 357-363
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2014.945029
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Background: The Personal Qualities Assessment (PQA), developed by the University of Newcastle, Australia to assess the aptitude of future medical professionals, has been used in Western countries. Purposes: The objective was to investigate whether the PQA is appropriate for Japanese medical school applicants. Methods: Two of the PQA tests, Libertarian-Dual-Communitarian moral orientations (Mojac) and Narcissism, Aloofness, Confidence, and Empathy (NACE), were translated into Japanese, and administered at the Tokyo Women's Medical University entrance examinations from 2007 to 2009. Results: The distributions of the applicants' Mojac and NACE scores were close to the normal distribution, and the mean scores did not exhibit a large difference from those in Western countries. The only significant difference was that the mean score of the NACE test was slightly lower than the Western norm. Conclusions: The translated PQA tests may be appropriate for use with Japanese applicants, though further research considering cultural differences is required.
- Subject
- personal qualities assessment (PQA); medical professional; entrance examination; sociocultural background
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1301573
- Identifier
- uon:20322
- Identifier
- ISSN:1040-1334
- Language
- eng
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