Faculty Evaluation in Korean Medical Schools: Part I. Designing of Basic Guideline for Assessment of Faculty Activities / 한국의학교육

Faculty evaluation in medical schools is a necessary procedure to improve the quality of the faculty and ultimately of the educational program. This article emphasizes an establishment of baseline strategies on designing the faculty evaluation programs prior to the development of basic guidelines to evaluate individual faculty activities. We propose, in this article, three baseline strategies in developing a faculty evaluation program. First, all of elements of faculty activities should be closely assessed, equally measured and balanced in light of the medical school's needs. From this point of view, clinical services should be assessed separately from the public service category because clinical services are special duties of clinical faculties in medical schools. Faculty track system including clinical track is one of the effective strategy to evaluate the activities of clinical faculties. Second, determining criteria should be developed with the understanding that they will clearly define the concepts of minimum requirements Third, for a more pertinent and effective faculty evaluation, various qualitative as well as quantitative methods must be used.

The Study on the Faculty Evaluation System of Teaching Ability in Korea / 한국의학교육

The purpose of this study is to discuss the evaluation system of teaching ability of medical college faculty members. Reviewing of books and journals ha s been carried out by the authors so that the problems and methods of faculty evaluation may be discussed. The practical Korean data on the faculty evaluation system were collected by the department of faculty affairs of each college in March 1998. Faculty evaluation can be divided into two dimensions-dynamic and static dimensions. The methods vary according to evaluators, such as self evaluation, student evaluation, peer evaluation and administrator evaluation. On the bases of the object or the time of evaluation, it can be divided into formative or summative evaluation. According to the methold of data collection, it also can be divided into literature evaluation, observation evaluation and site visiting evaluation as well. The authorities of medical colleges used to give much more weight on the research activities rather than on teaching abilities. This kind of idea has been pushed faculty members to stress on research activities not on teaching abilities. Some inportant problems detected in this study are the narrow evaluation scope of aculty teaching activities, the not well established rationale of the evaluation, the underdevelopment of evaluation items, and the rigidity of the related authority. The introduction of a faculty track system is recommended as a desirable arrangement to develop the evaluation system in Korea.