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Central South University began to implement the eight-year medical education in 2004, and has accumulated rich experience in the pre-medical education through continuous reform and improvement. Since 2012, Central South University has made a series of reformation, which is more conducive to the all-round development of medical students , on the pre-medical education . Through adding freshman courses, humanities courses, bilingual teaching courses, and applying aca-demic adviser institution, early scientific research training and open courses during the pre-medical education, Central South University has exercised and strengthened students' scientific research ability, the humanistic quality, English level, and made the pre-medical comprehensive examination for the shunt selection of students. Thus Central South University has improved the eight-year medical students' comprehensive quality, and provided an example of the reformation for medical education.
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To demonstrate the quality assurance of comprehensive examinations for fourth-year students at Nippon Medical School, scores on comprehensive examinations were compared with those on a trial of computer-based testing (CBT) of a nationwide medical and dental student evaluation system in 2003. Pearson's correlation coefficients between scores of two comprehensive examinations and the CBT score were 0.45 and 0.67, and the correlation coefficient between the average score of the two comprehensive examinations and the CBT score was 0.55. Fourth-year comprehensive examinations are useful tools for summative evaluation and prediction of CBT performance.
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The quality of the tests and the relationship between clinical achievement and comprehensive exam scores were studied in the sixth year medical students of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital during the academic years B.E. 2527-2534. The results were as follows: The content validity of the test used in each academic year was justified, which implied that such test was in accordance with the domain specifications defined in the Medical License Standard set by Thai Medical Council in the year B.E. 2527. However, the representativeness of the test was lacking because only 1-2 test items could not adequately sample such an extensive content area as listed in the table of specification. The tests showed a high degree of concurrent validity, implying that they could be used interchangeably with the 6-years cumulative grade point average to describe the student’s achievement. The reliability coefficients of the tests for eight academic years ranged from .77 to .90. The results of item analysis of the tests revealed the average difficulty with values from .54 to .59 and average index of discrimination with values from .10 to .13. The 4th and 5th year grade point averages were significantly correlated with the exam scores in each year (p < .01) and were able to predict the exam scores ranging from 50 to 66%.