RESUMO
We sent questionnaires to clinical instructors and trainees within 2 years of the latter passing the national licensure examination for medical practitioners to investigate their opinions about the examination and to improve its style. Most instructors wanted to change the examination into an ideal style; however, the trainees had positive comments about the present examination. Several problems came to light, including whether the present examination is asking the minimum requirements for initial training and what the necessary actions are for assessing clinical skills. We must take measures to improve the examination.
RESUMO
It is not well known in Korea if the entrance examination score has any predictive validity on the graduation score and national licensure examination. In addition, the gender effects of the three scores were investigated. The study was conducted using two years data of the three scores. The three scores from students of class of 98 and 99 were collected. Students who could not complete the medical education in four years were excluded. Also students who could not pass the national licensure examination were excluded as well. Correlations among the three scores were calculated and gender effect was examined by t- test. For the statistical process, SPSS 9.0 was used. The correlation between the scores of the entrance examination and graduation examination is not significant at 5% level. The correlation between the scores of the entrance examination and national licensure examination is not significant at 5% level. The correlation between graduation examination and national licensure examination;0.635 is highly significant at 0.1% level. The score difference between male and female at the entrance examination was not significant at 5% level. The score difference between male and female at the graduation examination and national licensure examination was highly significant at 0.1% level.