Correlations between the NEO-PI-R and physician assistant student professionalism and performance

Presented to the 10th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Heskett Center, Wichita State University, April 25, 2014.Research completed at Department of Physician Assistants, College of Health ProfessionsGrowing competition for a limited number of seats requires physician assistant (PA) programs to efficiently identify qualified applicants most likely to succeed. Personality inventories may be useful to evaluate applicants, but strong evidence of their value in the admission selection process is limited. We assessed correlations between the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) and pre-determined application selection criteria as well as professional, academic, and clinical performance indicators among 47 Wichita State University PA students. Statistical analysis demonstrated that neuroticism was moderately correlated with course scores