How we recruit future healthcare professionals is critically important, as the demand for high quality healthcare increases across the globe. This book questions what the evidence tells us about how best to select those most suited to a career in healthcare, ensuring that the approaches used are relevant and fair to all who apply.

Chapter 1 - Designing and Evaluating Seleciton in Healthcare - Patterson.- Chapter 2 - Aptitude testing in healthcare - Kelly, Tiffin & Mwandigha.- Chapter 3 - personality assessment in healthcare - Woods & Barratt.- Chapter 4 - Situational Judgement Tests - Patterson and Driver.- Chapter 5 - Interviews, multiple mini-interviews and selection centres - Knorr, Hissbach and Hampe.- Chapter 6 - Role Analysis. The Foundation for Selection Systems - Kerrin, Mossop, Rowett, Flemming and Flaxman.- Chapter 7 -New Approaches to Selection System Design in Healthcare - Lievens and Corstjens.- Chapter 8 - Applicant Perceptions and Reactions to Selection - Zibarras.- Chapter 9 - Coaching issues - Griffin.- Chapter 10 - Widening Access. Achieving equity in healthcare education - Cleland, Alexander, Nicholson.- Chapter 11 - Values Based Recruitment - Edwards Kiniros and Patterson.- Chapter 12 - Altruism in Healthcare Selection and Recruitment - insights from psychology and behavioural economics - Ferguson.- Chapter 13 - Reflections on the future challenges for researchers and practitioners in selection for healthcare. Patterson and Zibarras.