TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Arulampalam, Wiji
AU  - Naylor, Robin
AU  - Smith, Jeremy
        TI  - A Hazard Model of the Probability of Medical School Dropout in the United Kingdom
        PY  - 2001/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 333
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp333
        AB  - From individual-level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we analyse the probability that an individual student will ‘drop out’ of medical school prior to the successful completion of their studies. We examine the cohort of students enrolling for a medical degree at the start of the academic years 1985 or 1986. We find evidence that medical student completion is influenced by measures of academic preparedness, sex, and age as well as by the characteristics of the medical school itself. On the basis of our results, we also comment on the construction of institutional performance indicators against the criterion of student dropout.
        KW  - limited duration model
KW  - Medical students
KW  - student dropout (non-completion) probabilities
KW  - discrete time hazard
KW  - survival analysis
        ER  -