Prediction of Success in an Accelerated BS/MD Medical School Program Using Two Projective Techniques

Abstract

Two successive classes of accelerated medical students were administered a variety of tests in an effort to find predictors of medical school grades. Through an innovative combination of the Hand Test and Rorschach, a single index of maladjustment, Daubney Index, was derived. This correlated –.55 with medical school grades for 23 students. Similar approaches may be especially useful for high powered programs which stress the students' adaptive mechanisms.