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1) We report on a system implemented in 2007 in the Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University School of Medicine, to allow medical students to evaluate the teaching skills of medical staff and report on the effects of interventions, based on the evaluations, to improve the teaching skills of the staff.<BR>2) The scores for teaching skills in clinical training as evaluated by medical students were significantly increased after the staff had checked their scores to improve their teaching skills.<BR>3) The number of students choosing to do clinical clerkships in the Department of Otolaryngology was higher in 2008, when students evaluated the staff s teaching skills, than in 2007, when they did not.
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X type questions have been used for the national medical licensing examination since 1997. At Tsukuba University, X type questions have been used since 1996. We compared X typeand K type questions on the basis of the percentage of correct answers and discrimination power. The average percentage of correct answers was 68.2% for K type questions and 53.1% for X type questions. However, the average discrimination power was +0.227 for K type questions and +0.257 for X type questions. These results indicate that X type questions are more difficult and are suitable for achievement tests. The estimated knowledge quantity was 2.04 for K type questions and 2.32 for X type questions. This suggests that the person writing the questions decreased the essential difficulty of X type questions.
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Dr. Mladenka presented a unique newly produced video tape on how to care for patients with hypertension at the primary care level. The participants discussed it from the pedagogical point of view and highly evaluated its usefulness in continuing medical education. The video won a gold medal at the International Festival of Video and Computer Production for Medical and Health Education (1990) held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.