Overview
Offers perspectives on selection recruitment text in the healthcare context
Presents extensive research and an evidence base
Responds to changes in regulation over recent years to help inform practice
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Public Health Selection Process
- Aptitude testing in healthcare
- personality assessment in healthcare
- healthcare education
- Healthcare Recruitment
- aptitude tests
- personality assessment in recruitment
- UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT)
- Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT)
- socioeconomics
- Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
- Pre-Nursing and Guidance Test Battery
- job performance
- medical education
- Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
About this book
How we recruit future healthcare professionals is critically important, as the demand for high quality healthcare increases across the globe. This book questions what the evidence tells us about how best to select those most suited to a career in healthcare, ensuring that the approaches used are relevant and fair to all who apply.
The editors of this collection take a comprehensive look at the latest research surrounding recruitment and selection into healthcare roles. Each chapter is authored by leading experts and, using international case material, the practical implications for workforce policy are explored. They review the key stages in designing effective selection systems and discuss how best to evaluate the quality of selection processes. Evidence from role analysis studies as well as the effectiveness of different selection methods including aptitude and situational judgment tests, personality assessment and interviews are examined. Chapters also cover approaches to student selection and recruitment for postgraduate trainees through to senior appointments. Finally they highlight contemporary issues in recruitment, including the use of technology, selecting for values, candidate perceptions, coaching issues and how best to promote diversity and widening access.
Reviews
“Regardless of candidate's educational background and academic performance, aptitude and personality are key factors in how well he or she will ultimately perform in a chosen career. … This book is well written by a group of authors well trained in their fields.” (J. D. Whifill, Choice, Vol. 56 (10), June, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fiona Patterson is a leading international expert in selection, assessment and innovation in organisations. She is the founding Director for Work Psychology Group, providing advice to organisations internationally and Visiting Professor to the University of London, UK, having previously held academic posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham and Sheffield.
Lara Zibarras is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at City, University of London, UK. As a chartered occupational psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, Lara has conducted extensive selection assessment research in high-stakes settings, focusing on the applicants’ perspective, diversity and use of innovative assessment methods. She has published widely in academic journals and consulted for public and private sector organisations in the areas of selection, training, development and psychometric assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Selection and Recruitment in the Healthcare Professions
Book Subtitle: Research, Theory and Practice
Editors: Fiona Patterson, Lara Zibarras
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94971-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94970-3Published: 19 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40472-7Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94971-0Published: 11 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 379
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Economic Psychology, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Human Resource Management