Assessment of health emergency drill capacity for poisoning incidents at the municipal level in Guangdong Province / 中国职业医学

ObjectiveTo assess the capacity of health emergency drills for poisoning emergencies at the municipal level in Guangdong Province. Methods A total of 21 municipal teams from cities in Guangdong Province participated in the health emergency drill competition, which included comprehensive tests and practical assessments. Results The pass rate for the total score, comprehensive tests, practical assessments of 21 municipal teams was 66.7%, 33.3%, 66.7%, respectively. The pass rate of the comprehensive tests was lower than that of practical assessments (P<0.01). The pass rate for the total score, comprehensive tests, and practical assessments of team from the Pearl River Delta region was higher than those in non-Pearl River Delta regions (88.9% vs 50.0%, 55.5% vs 16.7%, 88.9% vs 50.0%). For the four comprehensive test items, the highest pass rate was for personal protective principles against chemical poisoning (57.1%). For the five practical assessment items, the highest pass rate was for the selection and matching of personal protective equipment and practice of poisoning detection (both 71.4%). Conclusion It is urgent to improve the capacity of health emergency drills at the municipal level in Guangdong Province. Emphasis should be placed on strengthening capacity building in teams from non-Pearl River Delta regions.

Study of 2010-2012 western medicine comprehensive test in postgraduate entrance examina-tion based on multivariate generalizability theory / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective To systematically evaluate the overall reliability,test paper structure and rationality proportional distribution of the secondary discipline of western medicine comprehensive test papers from 2010 to 2012 to provide references for future improvement to the syllabus and test quality. Methods Data of 15 765 candidates from 2010 to 2012 were extracted and statistical analy-sis was performed to do generalized research and decision-making research from discipline factors and question type factors. Results ①Based on the discipline factor analysis,variance components of ba-sic disciplines were relatively high ,global score relative error was very small and the generalizability coefficient was above 0.930. ②Based on the question type factor analysis,variance components in X-type questions and A1-type questions were relatively high, global score relative error was very small and the generalizability coefficient was above 0.930. Conclusions ①From the discipline content, the accuracy of various disciplines is high;contribution of basic disciplines is relatively higher than that of clinical disciplines;further improving the discrimination of questions can help to improve measure-ment accuracy. ②From the question design,question measurement error is small,accuracy is high,and the question distribution is appropriate;scale of A3 type questions can be further improved.