The construction, of evaluation system for academic medical doctoral dissertation / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore and establish a kind of dissertation evaluation system which can fully reflects the characteristics of academic medical doctoral training.Methods 41 medical doctoral dissertation evaluation systems and related literatures were collected,to get the current situation of this dissertation evaluation system in our country and find the key points of various evaluation systems.A questionnaire survey was conducted among 350 doctoral supervisors coming from 6 universities so as to define the framework and connotation of evaluation indicators.Using the Delphi expert consultation method,the connotation of evaluation indicators and composition as well as the weight of various indicators was improved.Results The doctoral supervisors who participated in the research considered that building the dissertation evaluation system should follow the principle of science,innovation and fairness,and the evaluation frame-work should have secondary index and evaluation elements.The evaluation contents concluded choosing topic,literature review,basic theory and professional knowledge,paper writing,innovation,research ability and academic morals and so on.And on the basis of this,the paper explored and developed a more scientific and comparative dissertation quality evaluation system with medical specialty.Conclusion The cultivation units should take the educational goal of evaluation target and the requirements of awarding degree into consideration,seeking opinions fully to the first-line supervisors and combing quantitative and qualitative evaluation effectively with scientific and operable principles when specifying evaluation system.