Do students from public schools fare better in medical school than their colleagues from private schools? If so, what can we learn from this?

Abstract Background Internal grade inflation is a documented practice in secondary schools (mostly in private schools) that jeopardises fairness with regard to access to medical school. However, it is frequently assumed that the higher internal grades are in fact justifiable, as they correspond to b...

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Main Authors: Cristina Costa-Santos, Pedro Vieira-Marques, Altamiro Costa-Pereira, Maria Amélia Ferreira, Alberto Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-018-1162-x