Mirjana Knorr

• PhD
• PhD Student at University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf

The German Constitutional Court is currently reviewing whether the actual study admission process in medicine is compatible with the constitutional right of freedom of profession, since applicants without an excellent GPA usually have to wait for seven years. If the admission system is changed, politicians would like to increase the influence of ps...

Objectives: Increasing numbers of educational institutions in the medical field choose to replace their conventional admissions interviews with a multiple mini-interview (MMI) format because the latter has superior reliability values and reduces interviewer bias. As the MMI format can be adapted to the conditions of each institution, the question...

Hintergrund und Fragestellung Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) erfreuen sich im Ausland zunehmender Beliebtheit in der Auswahl von Medizinstudierenden. Einige deutsche Fakultäten haben in Kooperation einen Papier-Bleistift SJT zu psychosozialen Kompetenzen entwickelt. Dieser wurde im Jahr 2016 im Rahmen der Studierendenauswahl u.a. in Hamburg pil...

Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are popular to screen for social skills during undergraduate medical admission as they have been shown to predict relevant study outcomes. Two different types of SJTs can be distinguished: Traditional SJTs, which measure general effective behavior, and construct-driven SJTs which are designed to measure specific c...

Objectives: Situational Judgement Tests (SJT) are a cost-efficient method for the assessment of personal characteristics (e.g., empathy, professionalism, ethical thinking) in medical school admission. Recently, complex open-ended response format SJTs have become more feasible to conduct. However, research on their applicability to a German context...

Background Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) are commonly used in medical school admissions. However, it has been consistently found that native speakers tend to score higher on SJTs than non-native speakers, which can be particularly problematic in the admission context due to the potential risk of limited fairness. Besides type of SJT, awareness...

The phenomenon of first impression is well researched in social psychology, but less so in the study of OSCEs and the multiple mini interview (MMI). To explore its bearing on the MMI method we included a rating of first impression in the MMI for student selection executed 2012 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (196 applica...

Background Social skills are important for future physicians and are therefore increasingly considered in selection processes. One economic assessment method from which different social skills can be inferred are Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) in which applicants are asked to rate behavioral responses in context-relevant situations. However, tra...

Social skills are important for future physicians and are therefore increasingly considered in selection processes. One economic assessment method from which different social skills can be inferred are Situational Judgment Tests (SJT) in which applicants are asked to rate behavioral responses in context-relevant situations. However, traditional SJT...

Background and Objective Newly created midwifery bachelor programmes attract an increasing number of applicants. Hence, educators have moved away from traditional non-standardised selection methods and started developing new tools for the admission of students. Researchers have expressed concerns around the validity of such selection measures and t...

Objective To investigate associations between medical students’ communication and other clinical skills assessed in OSCEs and MMIs performance upon admission by developing an assessment strategy based on an internationally acknowledged curriculum framework. Methods Between July 2019 and March 2020, 365 medical students in the 4th and 5th semester...

Background: Sociodemographic subgroup differences in multiple mini-interview (MMI) performance have been extensively studied within the MMI research literature, but heterogeneous findings demand a closer look at how specific aspects of MMI design (such as station type) affect these differences. So far, it has not been investigated whether sociodem...

In this chapter, the authors give an overview of interviews, multiple mini-interviews (MMI) and selection centres (SC) in a healthcare context. In a short introduction, they summarize key characteristics of these selection methods and highlight conceptual overlaps. Focusing on the question which underlying variables and processes determine the gene...

Background Multiple mini-interviews (MMI) become increasingly popular for the selection of medical students. In this work, we examine the validity evidence for the Hamburg MMI. Methods We conducted three follow-up studies for the 2014 cohort of applicants to medical school over the course of two years. We calculated Spearman’s rank correlation (ρ)...