Anouk Wouters (VU) has been awarded the Best Thesis price 2016-2017 of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (NVMO) for her thesis entitled “Effects of medical school selection on the motivation of the student population and applicant pool”. The research was carried out at Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and partially funded by The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (Nederlandse Federatie van Universitair Medische Centra) (NFU).