Prediction of success in an accelerated BS/MD medical school program using two projective techniques

Two successive classes of accelerated medical students were administered a variety of tests in an effort to find predictors of medical school grades. Through an innovative combination of the Hand Test and Rorschach, a single index of maladjustment, Daubney Index, was derived. This correlated--.55 with medical school grades for 23 students. Similar approaches may be especially useful for high powered programs which stress the students' adaptive mechanisms.