Comments on the 2018 Ottawa Consensus Statement - An Admissions Officer’s Point of View

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Patterson et al. (2018), after a multi-stage consultation of scholars in the health professions and education communities, presented an updated Ottawa consensus statement, in which they sketch out four critical issues and ten recommendations to advance the field of recruitment and selection. There is no question that this work cannot be achieved in isolation. A symbiotic relationship among health education scholars, admissions committees and admissions officers will bolster this knowledge mobilization process. I argue that admissions officers’ role is to facilitate this collaboration and modernization of selection criteria and methods using their tacit knowledge, experience, and networks.