Criteria which may influence selection of dental students

Academic qualifications are used as either the principal or the only criteria for selection of dental students. The view is often put forward that selection procedures should also identify and take into account those non-academic attributes which are considered to be predictive of the qualities which characterize a successful dentist. The aim of this study was to identify those qualities as assessed by students, dentists and patients and to consider their implications in relation to the selection procedures in Queensland. No major factors were found which could be used to improve the existing selection procedures.