Giving a boost: a free near-peer advising program for medical school applicants
The next steps are to evaluate the efficacy of GAB chapters at other institutions across the country and to focus on recruiting more nontraditional applicants. Additionally, more data should be collected to control for potential confounding variables, such as Medical College Admission Test scores and grade point averages, and to evaluate the potential impact on underrepresented applicants.
Authors
- Emily In
- Robert Dembinski
- Jeffrey Petigrow
- Arjun Mittal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-7381)
- Daniel Pan
Institutions
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- University of San Diego (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Rhode Island Hospital (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Michigan Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Academic Medicine
- Published
- 2025-12-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/acamed/wvaf004
- Primary Topic
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00