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Getting on Base for Health
Professions Admissions
Peter Van Houten, PhD
Abstract – A long time, career pre-professional advisor
offers a baseball analogy for how to look for those “non-cognitive” measures of
potential success. Sometimes it is not the highest paid team that wins the
World Series, or the straight A student who makes the best health care
professional. How do we learn to recognize the winning combination of good
judgment and “heart” – understood here to refer to the desire to serve others,
drive, determination and willingness to work hard to do the best possible job --
that can be the characteristics of a winner? The author advocates consistently
keeping the mind open to fresh ideas so that we do not miss out on what is
important in selecting students, to challenge conventional wisdom, and to look
for applicants with “heart”.
V23-5-38
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