Brian Herron gets some advice from the Institute of Education’s David Ball about how best to prepare for sitting the HPAT later this month The HPAT (Health Professions Admission Test) cannot be studied for. At least, that is according to the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER), which is the organisation that administers the examination. [...]
HPAT Special Report The best way to prepare for the HPAT is to be familiar with the types of questions that will be asked. Here are sample questions from each of the test sections The Institute of Education on Lower Leeson Street in Dublin has worked with psychometric assessment developers and experts in education to [...]
HPAT: SPECIAL REPORT – In the first part of our series on the HPAT exam and with this year’s test fast approaching, Niamh Mullen charts the introduction of the much-talked-about admissions test for medical school since it was recommended four years ago The hullabaloo over the introduction of the Health Professions Admission Test (HPAT) was [...]
HPAT: SPECIAL REPORT – When the Working Group for Medical Education sought to develop a strategy to diversify the mix of entrants to medical schools, it had international experience from which to draw, writes Brian Herron The year-old Health Professions Admission Test-Ireland (HPAT) process has attracted a fair amount of criticism, so it makes sense [...]
University College Cork (UCC) has published a student mental health policy and has stated its commitment to supporting all of its students during periods of distress. Vice President for the student experience, Con O’Brien, said that university life was a time of considerable change that could threaten the mental well-being of some students. “UCC acknowledges [...]
Might there be a new, better test to predict how people will perform in medical school? The New York Times highlights a new study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, that looks at five different dimensions of personality – extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness – and how they relate to success or failure [...]
Aspiring medical students sitting the Health Professional Admissions Test, or HPAT, next month will be able to request a re-check of their answer sheet following the publication of results in the summer. The measure is being introduced this year for the second-ever sitting of the HPAT, scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 27. According [...]
A leading neuroscientist has been appointed Professor of Physiology at the new Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) at the University of Limerick. Professor Billy O’Connor, in a lecture that coincided with his appointment, explained what makes the brain work and considered to find explanation “in our heads” for such human states as happiness, creativity and [...]
Letter of the week Dear Editor, The views of Dr John Murphy, expressed in his editorial in the latest Irish Medical Journal and reviewed by Niamh Mullen (IMT Oct 30, 2009) on the introduction of the HPAT Ireland test for medical school entry are cogent and timely. The dramatically high weighting on its first outing [...]
The introduction of the Health Professionals Admiss-ions Test (HPAT) was clumsy, took many in the medical and education profession by surprise and was not pilot-tested. This criticism of the new method of entry to medical school was written by Dr John Murphy in an editorial in the latest edition of the Irish Medical Journal. “One [...]
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