The Psychologists’ challenge concerned the future of UK health services.
Non-academic attributes, such as integrity and empathy, are essential to quality patient care; but had not been addressed in selection to medical careers.
Adding critical behavioural elements into the Clinical Aptitude Test series of assessments for medical and dental students could change that.
These Business Psychologists found a way to enable universities to identify applicants to medical and dental degrees – who were likely to lack the skills required to deliver high quality healthcare – in a reliable, validated, cost-efficient manner that supported social mobility.