Visualizing the Achievement Level of Diploma Policy / 医学教育

For the visualization of diploma policy (DP) achievement, we analyzed grade point (GP) of classes on subjects associated with competency (CPT). Visualization of students’ DP achievement became possible. When we divided DP into eight items, which responded to each CPT respectively and showed a radar chart with a calculation of the average grade points (AGP) in categorized class subjects. AGP for every item was compared among all students who were classified into six types, Those classifications were as follows all excellent evaluation, confined excellent evaluation, average evaluation high and low evaluation mixture, confined low evaluation and all low evaluation when compared with the average. We administered a self-check DP achievement questionnaire to the students and compared the results with AGP, Students were then classified into four types, self-underestimate, self-overestimate, appropriate low evaluation, and appropriate high evaluation. There were many female students in the self-underestimate type and many male students in the self-overestimate types. AGP analysis of class subjects associated with CPT is useful for the visualization of DP achievement and shows promise as a new student evaluation.

Three Policies in The Baccalaureate Degree Program and Outcome-Based Education / 医学教育

Educational reforms are required to achieve the "learning outcomes" expected in bachelor degree education programs. In executing reform, three policies of "diploma policy" , "curriculum policy" , and "admission policy" are clearly stated for each institution in order to facilitate integrated operation and practice. For the sake of quality assurance, outcome-based education (OBE), which emphasizes "learning outcomes" , has been introduced to medical education but it has not been adopted by all learning institutions. With the implementation of field-specific evaluations for medical education comes a need for all medical departments and medical colleges to introduce OBE as soon as possible. For this reason, an examination was conducted to find out how to formulate and operate the three policies under OBE.