Admissions

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Admissions

• Logistics
• Statistics
• Current issues

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Admissions Committee

• Anaesthesia Int. Care
• Anatomy
• Anat. Cell. Pathology
• Medicine
• Obstetrics
• Paediatrics
• Pharmacology
• Physiology
• Psychiatry
• Surgery

• Chairman appointed by Dean
• Ex officio
• Dean
• Assoc. Dean Education
• Assoc. Dean Student Affairs
• 7 other members

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Admissions Overview

• Funded quota set by UGC
• Several admission channels
• JUPAS, EAS administered by JUPAS office
• nonJUPAS, internal transfer by Faculty
• Select for interview, based on best academic
  results, three times more applicants than places

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JUPAS overview

• Joint University Programmes Admissions Scheme
• Form 7 students taking the HKALE exams
• HKALE results released in early July
• Students reprioritize choice of programme in 3
  days
• No contact with Universities permitted re
  admissions
• JUPAS provides list of students with choice of
  program by Band, and exam marks
• Band A is the students first three choices, but
  the exact order is not known by University
• Within three weeks, return to JUPAS a ranked list
  of students with total number to be admitted

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JUPAS exam results WGPA

• University must calculate the WGPA
• WGPA 1/4 CEE 3/4 ALE
• HKCEE 7 subjects
• HKALE 3 AL subjects 2 AS languages
• A 5, B 4, C 3,
• Interview those with WGPA 4

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JUPAS interviews

• July after HKALE results released
• Have organized early June interviews to those
  with high HKCEE results at least 5A,2B
• No early offer possible, still depends on ALE
• JUPAS schemes
• School Principals Nomination
• Sports Excellence
• Disabled Student
• Early conditional offers possible

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Early Admissions Scheme (EAS)

• Administered by JUPAS office
• Form 6 students with HKCEE results, AND currently
  at local school in Hong Kong
• Minimum 6 A with at least C in languages
• Faculty requires Level 5 (previously B) in
  English
• Permitted to take 1/3 of quota as EAS
• Interview dates set by JUPAS, February
• Similar Form 6 students with GCSE results also
  considered by University at this time. Require
  8A not including Chinese. Not EAS, are nonJUPAS
  students

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nonJUPAS

• High School students
• GCE A level
• International Baccalaureate
• Canadian, US, Australia, NZ
• Graduates
• Undergraduates
• Mature applicants
• (Internal transfer)
• All applications read by chairman

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nonJUPAS selection for interview

• High School students
• GCE A level 4A gt 90
• International Baccalaureate 40 / 42
• Canadian, US, Australia, NZ top 0.5
• Graduates GPA gt 3.7
• Undergraduates
• Mature applicants
• (Internal transfer) GPA gt 3.7
• Borderline applications assessed by two members
  and interviewed if one recommends

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Interview

• Current format introduced 2001
• Personal interview with two Faculty staff
• Semi-structured, in English, 15 min
• Held throughout the year from Jan to Aug
• Same interview process for all applicants
• 5 criteria, each scored on scale 1 to 5
• Independent assessment
• Sum of two interviewers range 10 - 50

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Interview

• Personal career aspirations
• motivation, expectations of medicine
• General knowledge about medicine
• the profession, health care system
• Moral and ethical aspects
• shows some opinion and appreciation of issues
• Social cooperative aspects
• Teamwork and community involvement
• Communication and language ability
• Interview form has large space for comments

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Ranking for Admission

• JUPAS
• 80 WGPA and 20 interview
• Low interview scores lt 30 excluded
• EAS
• No WGPA to separate students
• Banded approach
• 10A - 8A with high interview scores (40-50)
• 6A - 7A with v.high interview scores (45-50)
• 10A - 8A with scores (30-40)
• .

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Ranking for Admission

• nonJUPAS
• Different categories students
• All considered to meet academic standard
• Ranked purely by interview score
• Committee decision for students with same score
  for last places and order of waiting list
• Internal transfer by interview score

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Admissions Statistics
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Transparency

• All details provided on admissions webpage and
  open admissions seminars except
• Interview categories and list of questions
• Exact weighting of interview

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Interview reliability and validity

• Interview does not correlate with WGPA
• Best reliability and reproducibility from fully
  structured, multiple mini-interviews
• Time and resource intensive
• ? Appropriate outcome measure
• Medical school grades vs intern assessments
• ? Emphasis on selection (15 min), or on training
  (5 years)
• Complicated by multiple admission channels not
  all under our control

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Interview reliability and validity

• Format and process carefully considered
• Semi structured interview
• Standard list of suggested questions
• Initially limited pool of interviewers
• Frequent change of pairs of interviewers
• Instructions for new interviewers
• Briefing sessions before all interviews
• Statistical review of individual performance

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Review of Admissions Process

• Current issues
• Additional written test
• MCAT, BMAT, UKCAT, UMAT, GAMSAT
• Common elements with HKU
• Preparing for new 334 reform
• nonJUPAS Form 7 high school, graduates

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