Comment on I. C. McManus, Eamonn Ferguson, Richard Wakeford, David Powis and David James (2011). Predictive validity of the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT): an evaluation and case study. Medical Teacher 33(1): (this issue).

摘要

Medical admissions tests have high stakes for both takers and users. Sophisticated criteria should indeed apply to their design and operation. We constantly emphasise the need for validation effort and have argued for this to be extended and enhanced within the UK setting. We are therefore extremely disappointed in the approach taken in McManus et al, which appears to have failed to engage with the detail of work completed to date.