Revision Suggestions for the Accreditation Standards of the National Clinical Pharmacy Key Specialty / 中国药房

OBJECTIVE:To revise the accreditation standards of the national clinical pharmacy key specialty,promote the nor-malization and standardization of clinical pharmacy services and improve the service level of clinical pharmacy in our country. METHODS:Based on JCI international hospital accreditation ideas,suggestions for Clinical Pharmacy State Clinical Key Program Construction Score Standard for trial implementation (900 points) published by former Ministry of Health in 2012,were put for-ward. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:For the problems that there were lack of pharmacy service institutional management,process control and quality management standards,some classification programs were not clear,and did not fully reflect the clinical phar-macy service quality and work effect evaluation requirements,corresponding revisions were proposed in terms of basic conditions, information management,clinical pharmacy work management system,etc. The revised standard pays more attention and refines the quality system construction in system,standard,process,quality control,effect evaluation,which can promote the enhance-ment of our clinical pharmacy service levels,normalization and standardization of clinical pharmacy services.

A Study on the Classification Validity and Predictive Validity of Accreditation Standards for Medical Schools in Korea / 한국의학교육

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the classification of validity and predictive validity of accreditation standards for medical schools. METHODS: In order to analyze the validity of the standards of accreditation, an instrument, survey on the input and the output indicators in medical education, was developed to gather information. Cluster analysis, and regression analysis were performed in analyzing the data in order to examine the classification validity, and predictive validity of the standards of medical school accreditation. RESULTS: The result of this research was as follows; First, Korean medical schools can be classified into seven types according to the amount of invested resources and the educational outcome. The result showed that the standards of medical school accreditation have validity in the schools of lead type, average type, and unconcerned type. Therefore, applying uniform standards to all different types of schools is not validity in enhancing the quality of medical education and in insuring that the medical schools to carry out their social accountability. Second, variables predicting the passing rate of the Korean medical licensing examination (KMLE) were found out to be the college's quota of student, the number of journals per student, and the Korean Scholastic Achievement Test(KSAT). Variables predicting the level of students' satisfaction were the total lecture time, the educational facility per student, and the KSAT. The standards of accreditation accounts for 54.2% in predicting the passing rate of the KMLE and 84.4% in predicting the level of students' satisfaction. CONCLUSION: Such findings lead to conclude that new standards of medical school accreditation comprehensively including more predicting variables and outcome variables needs to be developed.