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CASPer
What is CASPer? Your Questions Answered
Holistic admissions are complicated. An applicant’s experiences, attributes, and academic successes are all weighed against an institutions mission and goals, and a decision is made. In theory, this method builds a more diverse and unique student base. CASPer is one piece of this holistic…
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Admissions, Healthcare
How One of America’s Top Pediatric Hospitals Is Changing Its Graduate Medical Education Admissions for the Better
With a medical staff of over 1,000 specialists, Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona is one of the largest pediatric healthcare centers in the U.S. To grow its services and expand its coverage, the hospital actively looks for standout promising physicians for its graduate medical…
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Education
The Importance Of People Skills for Teacher Success
Enthusiasm, leadership, communication, empathy, self-evaluation, creativity, and emotional intelligence. These are just some of the twenty professional and people skills teachers need to develop to succeed. All these skills contribute to teacher wellbeing and a great classroom dynamic. When asked about their biggest success,…
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Healthcare, Technology
Why People Skills Matter for Patient Privacy
Healthcare data breaches occur when sensitive information, including both personal (e.g., name, social security number, address) and private health data (e.g., medical history, health insurance information), is exposed to unauthorized parties. Because this type of information is confidential and should only be accessible to…
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Admissions
7 Admissions Trends to Look Out for in 2019
Admissions pools are shrinking, but applications are up. Acceptance rates are down, but institutions are re-evaluating their marketing to attract more applicants. International applicants are on the rise, and looking for a career path before they even apply. Holistic admissions and demonstrated interest are…
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Admissions, CASPer, Technology
Looking Forward, Glancing Back: Our Journey Through 2018 and into 2019
Researching, educating, and developing. We spent 2018 focusing on reflection and growth, and the hard work paid off. We improved our process, helped our partner programs successfully integrate CASPer into their admissions process, and gave future students a platform to demonstrate their personal and…
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Healthcare
The Cost of Medical Residency Selection (and how CASPer® can help)
How much does it cost to find and admit the best future physicians to medical residency programs? For Internal Medicine; about $148,000 per year. Per school. That’s a huge annual cost for institutions. It’s a cost that most accept because student admissions are incredibly…
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Admissions, CASPer, Technology
Altus Assessments is Making Sure Students are more than Just Book Smart
Almost all of the complaints (95% to be exact) made against doctors have little to do with medicine. Instead, they’re related to professionalism… or the lack of it. According to Rich Emrich, the founding CEO of Altus Assessments, the reason for this is simple:…
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CASPer
CASPer® Information Webinar Session for Pre-Health Advisors
In this web presentation Dr. Kelly Dore, co-creator of CASPer® and Diana Ibranovic, marketing manager discuss the following topics and tips: An introduction to CASPer® and a brief history of the toolHow the test worksCost and logistics for applicantsWhich schools and programs require…
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Admissions, Healthcare
How a Leading College of Osteopathic Medicine is Enhancing Their Holistic Admissions Process
Since opening its doors in 2007, the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York (TouroCOM) has become a highly respected college in the U.S. for osteopathic medicine. Of the 18,000 aspiring Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs) that apply to American colleges each year,…
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Admissions, Education
A Comparison of Situational Judgement Tests and Personal Statements for Selection into Initial Teacher Education
With the recent mandate to emphasize the importance of non-academic attributes during selection into Initial Teacher Education, most programs in Victoria have selected CASPer to assess these attributes while others have opted to use 1000-word personal statements. Personal statements have had a fairly long…
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Admissions, CASPer, Science & Research, Technology
CASPer Research Highlights from the 2017-2018 Admissions Cycle
Last year at Altus Assessments, we focused our research efforts on addressing the two questions we hear most often from our academic partners: What does CASPer measure? How should we incorporate CASPer into our existing medical admissions process? In this blog post, we’re using…
