An ex post facto evaluation of the 82nd and 83rd national examination for Physicians' license / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

The 82 nd and 83 rd National Examination for Physicians' License, which were held in 1988 and 1989 respectively, were evaluated from question to question as well as in all the questions as a whole to set minimum pass scores and analysis “relevance” and “difficulty” in a matrix utilizing a modified Ebel's method.<BR>The evaluators were teachers in different disciplines in nationwide medical schools and teaching hospitals and clinical trainees who had taken and passed the immediate past examinations.<BR>Following data processing, the questionable and difficult questions were on the decrease compared with the preceding year, and it was tentatively concluded that the National Examinations have gradually improved year by year.