Development and testing of a post competency scale for traditional Chinese medicine physicians undergoing standardized training.

Objective: To develop and test a post competency scale for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physicians undergoing standardized training to provide an applicable tool for scientific evaluation. Methods: Based on literature analysis, behavioral event interviews, and expert consultations, measurement questions were formulated and the initial scale was designed. A questionnaire survey was conducted from July 2022 to May 2023 among TCM physicians undergoing standardized training in China. The rationality of the scale was confirmed through item purification, factor analysis, and tests of reliability and validity. Results: The post competency scale consisted of three dimensions (TCM fundamentals and research abilities, TCM thinking and skill abilities, and personal traits and communication abilities) with 21 items. Exploratory factor analysis identified three common factors, accounting for a cumulative variance contribution rate of 62.165%. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the fit indices of the three-factor model fell within a relatively ideal level. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.885. Through convergent validity analysis, the standardized loading coefficients of the 21 items were >0.5, and the average extracted variance (AVE) of the three factors was also >0.5. Moreover, the square roots of the AVE values for each dimension exceeded the correlation coefficients between it and the other dimensions. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the post competency scale of TCM physicians undergoing standardized training can provide a reliable scientific basis for training and assessment within China.

Examination of the role of the rotating nursing department in the training of nursing staff based on SWOT analysis.

BACKGROUND: The implementation of the rotation system in the Chinese medical industry has achieved significant results. OBJECTIVES: The present study aims to 1) explore the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of rotational nursing department implementation and 2) provide references for developing nursing staff's competencies in leadership, performance evaluation, quality of care, communication in relationships and human resources. METHODS: A total of 16 rotational nursing department staff members from a tertiary tuberculosis specialist hospital in Beijing were interviewed, and the interview data were analysed using a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis and class analysis. RESULTS: The advantages of the rotational nursing department included: (1) stimulating the nursing staff's enthusiasm and creativity; (2) strengthening the communication and collaboration between departments; (3) improving the detailed management of nursing quality; and (4) enhancing the nursing staff's comprehensive abilities. The disadvantages included: (1) the design of the rotation programme focusing on practice; (2) a lack of personalisation; and (3) imperfect performance assessment of the rotating staff. Opportunities included: (1) deepening the connotation of nursing job management and (2) developing the construction of nursing discipline and the need for personal career development and value realisation. Threats included the lack of a sound rotation management model to draw on. CONCLUSION: A rotational nursing department is conducive to enhancing the competence of nursing staff in management positions and providing new ideas for hospitals to select and train nursing management talents. By taking full advantage of the benefits of vertical nursing management, designing personalised rotation training programmes, building a diversified learning and training platform and developing a positive performance incentive mechanism is recommended to fully engage the role of rotation in nursing management talent training.

Application of A Tiered Progressive Training Model in the Standardized Residency Training on Laboratory Medicine / 现代检验医学杂志

Objective To cultivate the ability of laboratory resident physicians in multiple aspects and enhance their post-competence for laboratory medicine.Methods The residents recruited into the Cancer Hospital of China Academy of Medical Sciences Laboratory Base were divided into junior residents and senior residents.According to the different training contents and objectives,the exploration of the hierarchically progressive training model was carried out,which mainly included three aspects:training plan,process training and process assessment.Results After the implementation of the hierarchical progressive training model,the average theoretical score and the average score in the skill operation examination of the residents increased to over 90 and 95,respectively.Meanwhile,the comprehensive clinical ability was also improved.Breakthroughs of teaching,scientific research and honor were achieved from"nothing"before the implementation to"something"after the implementation,and it actively promoted the improvement of the post-competency of the residents in laboratory medicine.Conclusion The application of the hierarchically progressive training mode in standardized training of residents in laboratory medicine could play a good role in promoting the training of post-competence for residents.

The construction of employer's satisfaction evaluation index towards the post competency of residents / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To develop employer's satisfaction evaluation index system towards post competency of residents.Methods:Using Delphi method, the employer's satisfaction evaluation index system towards post competency of residents was formulated through a two-round expert consultation among 19 experts. SPSS 20.0 was used for statistical analysis to calculate the positive coefficient, authority coefficient and coordination degree of experts.Results:For the two rounds of the expert consultation, the questionnaire recovery rate was 95.0% and 100% respectively. The experts' authority coefficient was 0.92, and the system was ultimately determined, including 5 first-level indicators, and 32 secondary indicators. The coefficient of variation (CV) of first-level indicators was 0.00, and the Kendall's W of secondary indicators was 0.663. Conclusions:Employer's satisfaction evaluation index system towards post competency of residents is scientific and reliable, which could provide employer with systematic and objective tool to evaluate residents' post competency.

On the construction of the core competence training system of ICU specialized nurses in Yunnan Province based on patient safety / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To construct an objective and scientific core competence training system for intensive care unit (ICU) specialized nurses in Yunnan Province, and to provide references for formulating a homogeneous and standardized ICU specialized nurse training strategy and assessment.Methods:Based on the theoretical basis of the nurse-patient safety competency framework, the relevant literature of nursing job competence was consulted, the core competency training system of ICU specialized nurses in Yunnan Province was constructed, and the expert letter questionnaire was designed through theoretical analysis. From January to May 2020, 15 experts of critical care medicine from Yunnan Province were consulted by Delphi method to establish a core competency training system for ICU specialized nurses in Yunnan Province. SPSS 21.0 was used to input and analyze the data.Results:A total of 2 rounds of Delphi expert consultation were carried out. The final core competency indicators for ICU specialized nurses included effective communication, teamwork, safety risk management, nursing quality improvement and professionalism, including 5 first-level indicators, 14 second-level indicators and 59 third-level indicators. The effective recovery rates of the two rounds of Delphi expert consultation questionnaires were 100.00% (15/15) and 86.67% (13/15), the expert authority coefficient values were 0.863 and 0.881 respectively, the Kendall harmony coefficients of the first-level index, the second-level index and the third-level index were 0.381, 0.299 and 0.250, and χ2 value was 22.86, 58.22 and 217.30, with statistically significant differences ( P<0.001). The 5 first-level indicators were safety risk management (0.360), professionalism (0.280), teamwork (0.200), nursing quality improvement (0.120), and effective communication (0.040) in descending order. Conclusions:The established core competence training system for ICU specialized nurses in Yunnan Province based on patient safety is reliable and scientific, which can provide objective basis for the on-the-job training, evaluation and development of patient safety education courses for ICU specialized nurses in Yunnan Province.

Comparison of clinical medicine proficiency tests of China and Japan and the enlightenment / 中华医学教育探索杂志

The Clinical Medicine Proficiency Test developed by the National Medical Examination Center of China in 2020 aims to assess whether clinical medical students possess the necessary medical humanities and basic medical theoretical knowledge and skills required for clinical internships. Since 2002, Japan has implemented the pre-clinical clerkship objective structured clinical examination and computer-based testing, which share similarities with China's proficiency test in terms of examination objectives, content, format, and score evaluation. Through comparing the examinations of China and Japan, this article concludes that it is necessary to learn from Japan's experience to expedite the process of promoting the Clinical Medicine Proficiency Test as an industry admission examination in China. We suggest that medical schools should keep tracking the development of the proficiency test and fully leverage its role in urging students to pay more attention to clinical internships. We also urge medical schools to establish a three-level examination system based on post competency criteria in line with the standards of the National Medical Licensing Examination to improve the quality of medical education.

Application feasibility of the post competency index system of rural general practice assistant physicians / 中华全科医师杂志

Objective:To evaluate the application feasibility of the post competency index system of rural general practice assistant physicians, and to analyze and compare the post competency of rural general practice assistant physicians with different characteristics through a survey among rural general practice assistant physicians in China.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional study. A questionnaire survey was conducted among rural general practice assistant physicians in 10 provinces/municipalities selected by stratified cluster sampling method from October 2020 to September 2021. The post competency scores were self-evaluated based on the post competency index system of rural general practice assistant physicians. The results of the survey were analyzed and the application feasibility of the index system was evaluated.Results:A total of 1 123 questionnaires were distributed and 1 024 valid questionnaires were returned with a recovery rate of 91.2%. Of the 1 024 respondents, 529 were males (51.7%), 435 were aged 40-49 years (42.5%), 434 had a secondary school education or less (42.4%), and 531 were junior practitioners (51.9%). The Cronbach′s α coefficient of the overall questionnaire was 0.987, and the Cronbach′s α coefficient of the first level index ranged from 0.897 to 0.974. The cumulative variance contribution rate of exploratory factor analysis was 72.012%. The confirmatory factor analysis showed χ2/ df=3.926, RMSEA=0.076, CFI=0.858, IFI=0.859, indicating that the model fit was basically good. The average self-evaluation scores of the first level index ranged from 3.95 to 4.25, and the average self-evaluation scores of the second level index ranged from 3.74 to 4.36. There were significant differences in self-evaluation scores of post competency among rural general practice assistant physicians with different working years, professional titles, working units and economic regions( F=4.67, 10.54, 22.16 and 20.90,all P<0.05). People with low self-evaluation scores of post competency had the following characteristics: working 10-19 years, intermediate or above titles, working in community health service centers, located in the eastern region.People with high self-evaluation scores of post competency had the following characteristics: primary professional title, working in the village clinic. Conclusion:The competency index system of rural general practice assistant physicians has good application feasibility,and it can be used to evaluate post competency for the education and training of rural general practice assistant physicians.

Exploration on thematic morning report based on post-competence in standardized residents training in hospital in intensive care unit / 中国医学伦理学

Objective:To explore the role of conducting a"thematic morning report"based on post-competency in the standardized residents training in hospital in the Intensive Care Unit(ICU).Methods:A total of 60 resident training physicians who participated in the standardized residents training in hospital in the ICU of this hospital from January 2020 to December 2022 were included,and randomly divided into an observation group and a control group,with 30 in each group.The observation group adopted an interactive teaching method of themed morning report based on post-competency,while the control group adopted the traditional teaching method.The assessment results of clinical theoretical knowledge and operational skills of the two groups of resident training physicians under different teaching methods were compared.The 360°assessment method was used to record the multi-directional evaluation of patients or their families,nurses,colleagues,and teaching teachers on the post-competence of resident training physicians(self-learning ability,team collaboration ability,effective communication ability,and learning interest).Results:The assessment scores of clinical theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the observation group after teaching were higher than those in the control group,with statistically significant differences(theoretical assessment:t=2.101,P＜0.05;practical assessment:t=9.647,P＜0.05).The post-competence scores of nurses,colleagues,and teaching teachers on resident training physicians in the observation group were higher than those in the control group after one-month regular training,and the differences were statistically significant(nurses'evaluation of self-learning ability:t=3.182,P=0.002,team collaboration ability:t=3.978,P＜0.05,effective communication ability:t=2.180,P=0.0335,learning interest:t=3.884,P＜0.05;colleagues'evaluation of self-learning ability:t=2.888,P=0.005,team cooperation ability:t=6.816,P＜0.05,effective communication ability:t=3.833,P＜0.05,learning interest:t=4.086,P＜ 0.05;teaching teacher's evaluation of self-learning ability:t=3.429,P=0.001,team cooperation ability:t=3.086,P=0.003,effective communication ability:t=3.493,P=0.001,learning interest:t=3.126,P=0.003).There was a statistically significant difference in the satisfaction scores of patients or their familymembers towards the two groups of resident training physicians(t=3.126,P=0.003).Conclusion:The use of the interactive teaching method of thematic morning report based on post-competency in the standardized residents training in hospital in the ICU can not only improve the theoretical practice and case analysis test scores of resident training physicians,but also improve the post-competence and the satisfaction of patients and their families.

A structural equation modelling analysis: interprofessional team collaboration, organizational career management, and post competency of community nurses.

BACKGROUND: With the advent of an ageing society and an increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases, the role of primary health care has become increasingly important and reliant on multidisciplinary collaboration. As members of this interprofessional cooperative team, community nurses play a dominant role. Thus, the post competencies of community nurses study deserve our attention. In addition, organizational career management can affect nurses in some ways. This study aims to examine the current situation and relationship among interprofessional team collaboration, organizational career management and post-competency of community nurses. METHODS: A survey was conducted among 530 nurses in 28 community medical institutions from November 2021 to April 2022 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Descriptive analysis was used for analysis, and a structural equation model was used to hypothesize and verify the model. A total of 88.2% of respondents met the inclusion criteria and did not meet the exclusion criteria. The main reason nurses gave for not participating was that they were too busy. RESULTS: Among the competencies on the questionnaire, ensuring quality and helping roles scored the lowest. The teaching-coaching and diagnostic functions played a mediating role. Nurses with greater seniority and those who were transferred to administrative departments had lower scores, and the difference was statistically significant (p < 0.05). In the structural equation model, CFI = 0.992 and RMSEA = 0.049, which shows that the model fit well, suggesting that organizational career management had no statistically significant effect on post competency (ß = -0.006, p = 0.932) but that interprofessional team collaboration had a statistically significant effect on post competency (ß = 1.146, p < 0.001) and organizational career management had a statistically significant effect on interprofessional team collaboration (ß = 0.684, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Attention should be given to the improvement of community nurses' post competency in ensuring quality and performing helping, teaching-coaching, and diagnostic roles. Moreover, researchers should focus on the decline in community nurses' abilities, particularly for those with greater seniority or in administrative roles. The structural equation model shows that interprofessional team collaboration is a complete intermediary between organizational career management and post competency.

Construction of training indexes of post competency of dental hygienist / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective:To construct training indexes of post competency of dental hygienist, and to provide objective basis for the establishment of the index system of the transition from dental nurse to dental hygienist in the future.Methods:The relevant literature of post competency of dental hygienist was searched from the databases such as PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Internet, Wanfang database. The search time was from the establishment of the database to March 2021. The expert letter inquiry questionnaire was designed through preliminary consultation.Delphi expert consultation was conducted for 20 dental experts from Beijing city, Chongqing city, Jiangsu province, Sichuan province, Jilin province from May to November 2021, and model indexes and weight assignment of post competency of dental hygienist were determined.Results:Three rounds of Delphi expert consultation were conducted, the effective recoveries of the questionnaires were 100%, the expert authority coefficients were 0.81, 0.81, 0.83, respectively, the coefficient of variation of expert consultation was 0.000-0.386, 0.000-0.300 and 0.000-0.250, respectively, the coordination degree of expert opinions in the third round of consultation was 0.679, 0.428 and 0.389 (all P<0.01). The formed training indexes of post competency of dental hygienist included 4 first-level indexes, 20 second-level indexes and 60 third-level indexes. Conclusions:The training index system of post competency of dental hygienist in this study is scientific, reliable, and practical, to provide reference for training and assessment of post competency of dental hygienist and objective basis for establishing the indexes system of dental nurse to dental hygienist in the future.

Construction of the post competency model of clinical medicine students in military medical universities / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To establish a post competency model for clinical medical students in military medical universities to explore the qualities most needed by outstanding graduates.Methods:Through behavioral event interview (BEI) method, the complete interview data of 82 graduates (40 students in excellent group and 42 students in normal group) from a military medical university were obtained. The respondents were asked to recall the three most successful and unsuccessful cases in their past work, and fill in the checklist. The interview data were coded, marked and classified, the interview recording data were analyzed, and the comparison was made between the frequency of competency characteristics and the collection points of excellent graduates.Results:Top 9 competency features with the highest frequency and no difference between the two groups were respectively internal quality (82 students, 100%), clinical medical service capacity (52 students, 63.4%), continuous learning ability (36 students, 43.9%), teamwork ability (38 students, 46.3%), career (66 students, 80.5%), enterprise (46 students, 56.1%), sense of responsibility (42 students, 51.2%), execution (42 students, 51.2%), and coordination of team members (36 students, 44.0%). The proportions of excellent graduates to mention the ability to apply information tools ( χ2=6.80, P=0.009),; master English literature ( χ2=4.42, P=0.036), and be self-disciplined and fame and fortune-weakened ( χ2=6.90, P=0.009) were higher than those of the ordinary ones. Conclusion:This study has scientifically constructed a post competency model for clinical medicine students in military medical universities, including the benchmark competency model (9 characteristics with the highest frequency and non-differentiated between two groups) and the identification competency model (3 characteristics of excellent graduates higher than those of ordinary ones).

Multi-disciplinary open comprehensive training program in improving the post competency of medical imaging students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To evaluate the teaching effect of multi-disciplinary integrated training program on the open comprehensive training room to improve the post competency of medical imaging students.Methods:A total of 122 residential students of five-year medical imaging from Batch 2014 of The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College were divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group carried out the multi-disciplinary open comprehensive training program, and the control group carried out open-ended exercises. The comprehensive discipline theory examination, assessment of clinical thinking and comprehensive skill appraisal, and satisfaction questionnaire results were compared between the two groups. SPSS 23.0 was used for t test. Results:①Comprehensive discipline theory examination scores were higher in experimental group than the control group [(80.33±3.70) vs. (74.56±5.09)], with statistical differences ( P<0.05). ②Experimental group scored higher in clinical thinking and comprehensive skills than the control group did, and the difference was statistically significant [(87.58±3.15) vs. (74.52±3.66), P<0.05]. ③The questionnaire investigation showed that the experimental group students did better in improving autonomous learning ability, expression ability, the team cooperation ability, the ability to find and fix problems and the degree of self-esteem than control group, with statistically significant differences ( P<0.05). Conclusion:The multi-disciplinary open comprehensive training program has a good effect on optimizing the open-ended exercises. Students' knowledge of multi-disciplinary comprehensive theoretical knowledge and imaging skills have been improved, and the ability of teamwork, problem-solving ability, self-learning ability and innovation ability required by the core competence of the profession have been developed and improved, which meets the modern medical treatment of education "to create an educational platform of medical education collaboration and multi-disciplinary integration, and to cultivate students' innovative and autonomous learning."

The practice of the cultivation strategy of incremental training of modern clinical thinking ability to cultivate clinical post competency of "5 + 3" integration students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

At present, some "5+3" integration students have different levels of understanding and application problems in various stages, such as role transformation, professional knowledge and technology, communication ability and humanistic care ability, clinical thinking and evidence-based medicine concepts, clinical research thinking, learning and work attitude. This research will permeate and run through the training of "5+3" integrated students' diagnostic and therapeutic operation ability through the training of modern clinical thinking oriented by post competency, and integrate humanistic care, evidence-based medicine, learning attitude, working attitude, and attitude towards patients in the whole process to gradually complete the comprehensive training goal of clinical thinking oriented by post competency + diagnostic and therapeutic operation ability.

Analysis of the effects of the teaching reform to strengthen the integration of basic medicine and clinical medicine through the National Medical Licensing Examination scores / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To investigate the effects of teaching reform to strengthen the integration of basic medicine and clinical medicine by analyzing the scores of the National Medical Licensing Examination from 2014 to 2018.Methods:Through the improvement of the training program, the establishment of subject integration courses, the standardization of case teaching mode and the establishment of comprehensive medical experiment courses, the teaching reform of the combination of basic medicine and clinical medicine was carried out. The differences in the scores of the National Medical Licensing Examination between the students from Dalian University and those from the whole country were compared, including the average total scores, the passing rates, the average mastery rates of the basic medicine, and the average mastery rates of the cognitive level of the basic medicine.Results:In 2014, 2015 and 2016, the average total scores of the students from Dalian University were 384.70±53.62, 395.45±50.49, and 401.43±50.88, respectively, which were lower than those from the whole country (396.15±58.85, 400.78±56.88, and 405.15±58.06). The average mastery rates of the basic medicine of the students from Dalian University were 56.28%, 62.45%, and 64.92%, respectively, lower than those from the whole country (58.41%, 62.46%, and 65.36%). The average mastery rates of the basic medicine of the students form Dalian University from 2014 to 2016 were lower than those from the whole country, and those were higher in 2017 to 2018 than the whole country. The average total scores of the students form Dalian University in 2017 and 2018 were 397.11 and 400.26 ± 61.15, respectively, higher than those from the whole country (388.91 and 397.01±58.35). The average mastery rates of the basic medicine of the students form Dalian University were 61.53% and 59.85%, respectively, higher than those from the whole country (58.64% and 58.38%). The total passing rates of the students from Dalian University in 2014 and 2016 were 91.11% and 72.73%, respectively, lower than those from the whole country (91.18% and 73.75%), while in 2015, 2017 and 2018 those were 76.47%, 77.78%, and 77.59%, respectively, all higher than those from the whole country (73.59%, 74.29%, and 76.89%). All the data showed a trend of increase with the teaching reform process.Conclusion:Strengthening the teaching reform of the combination of basic medicine and clinical medicine during the learning stage of basic medicine could improve students' learning interest and attention to the basic medical knowledge, strengthen the understanding of the relevance of basic medicine to clinical medicine, and play a positive role in the cultivation of medical students' post competency and the achievement of the goal of training applied medical talents.

Reform of clinical medical talents cultivation model based on post competency: a case study of Guangxi Medical University / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Through the reform and practice of the "four-in-one" cultivation model of clinical medical talents, the training mode of applied high-quality medical and health talents with different orientations is established, and the curriculum teaching system suitable for the development of modern medical education is constructed to promote the reform of education and teaching. It solves the problems of single medical talents training mode, fragmentation of curriculum system, single teaching and training in teaching, and insufficient support for talent training. This reform established a set of curriculum system, teaching methods and evaluation methods to strengthen the cultivation of medical students' post competency, and achieved the goal of improving the quality of clinical medical personnel training in local medical colleges.

Exploration and practice of clinical engineer training mode / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To explore the training mode of continuing education for clinical engineers, and provide reference for the training of clinical engineers.Methods:A total of 31 clinical engineers were selected as the two-stage training mode combined with short-term centralized intensive basic training and standardized post professional training. Comparative analysis of assessment scores before and after training was performed, and the satisfaction of comprehensive effect and post competency improvement after training was evaluated. SPSS 19.0 was used for t-test. Results:The assessment scores after training (85.06±7.31) were significantly higher than those before (69.55±6.74) training ( P = 0.001). The comprehensive training effect of clinical engineers and the satisfaction rate of post competency improvement reached a high level, which were 70.97% (22/31) and 83.87% (26/31), respectively. Conclusion:The two-stage training mode combined with short-term centralized basic intensive training and standardized post professional training can not only effectively improve the theoretical knowledge level, practical ability and post competency of clinical engineers, but also shorten the centralized training time, which is conducive to solving the practical problems that affect the continuing education training program due to the lack of human resources of clinical engineers.

Study on post competency index system of public health professionals / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To clarify the elements of post competency of public health professionals and technical personnel, and construct a post competency index system of public health professionals and technical personnel.Methods:Referring to the Hay Group Competency Dictionary and literature review method, the post competency information elements of public health professional and technical personnel were constructed, and were revised through the expert consultation method. Unit-level stratified sampling was used, and 120 public health professionals were invited to evaluate the importance of the elements. SPSS 26.0 was used for data analysis, the continuous data were expressed in ( x ± s) mode, and Pearson was used to study the degree of correlation of each dimension. Finally, the post competency index system for public health positions was constructed by using the factor analysis method to extract the common factor as the first-level index. Results:The index system contained 7 first-level indicators (43 items), including public health practice skills, clinical practice skills, professional basic subject knowledge, personal professional accomplishment, public health authority and management ability, public health leadership, and public health methodology knowledge. Its weight coefficients (%) were 20.03, 17.48, 15.89, 15.68, 13.98, 12.82 and 4.11, respectively. The elements with the highest materiality scores were personal protection, responsibility and professionalism.Conclusion:Personal protection and other public health practical skills and personal professional qualities such as sense of responsibility and professionalism are the core elements of public health positions, and it is recommended to strengthen the training of public health professionals' public health practical skills in actual work, and pay attention to the cultivation of personal professional qualities, so as to establish a better team of public health talents.

On the importance of post competency elements of community public health professionals / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To analyze the importance of post competency elements of community public health professionals, and to provide data and method support for the construction and cultivation of community public health professionals.Methods:In September to October 2020, 25 experts were selected in the study, and the interval value hesitant fuzzy entropy method was used to analyze the importance of post competency elements. Excel 2013 and SPSS 25.0 were used to calculate the data.Results:Among the primary index of post competency elements, the order of importance were professional quality (0.207), professional knowledge and skills (0.204), integrative thinking (0.200), personal characteristics (0.199), basic professional ability (0.191); for second-level indicators, for second-level indicators,critical thinking (0.105), systematic thinking (0.095), public health knowledge and skills (0.044) were the top three of post competency elements were the top three of post competency elements.Conclusion:The recessive professional accomplishment dominated by professional ethics, the integrative thinking of public health dominated by critical thinking, and the professional knowledge and skills dominated by public health knowledge and skills should be focused on.

Survey on post competency of general practitioners with completion of residency training / 中华全科医师杂志

Objective:To survey the post competency of general practitioners who completed residency training in Suzhou Municipal Hospital.Methods:A questionnaire survey on post competency of general practitioners was conducted from January to March 2022. General practitioners who completed standardized residential training in Suzhou Municipal Hospital from 2009 to 2021 were randomly selected for the survey. The self-designed questionnaire included the basic information and post competency in terms of clinical, public health, research and teaching abilities as well as medical ethics and humanism. A self-evaluation was also performed and the abilities were graded (A 86-100, B 70-85, C 55-69, D 0-54), and grade A was classified as excellent.Results:A total of 163 questionnaires were distributed and 157 valid ones were collected with a recovery rate of 96.3%. Among 157 respondents 62 (39.5%) were males. The participants mainly worked in urban community health service institutions (78 (49.7%)), and most of them worked as general practice (119 (75.8%)). For the self-assessment of clinical skills, the proportion of respondents with excellent abilities in history taking, basic drug use, diagnosis and treatment of common diseases, and chronic disease management was 58.8% (70/119), 57.1% (68/119), 54.6% (65/119) and 54.6% (65/119), respectively. The proportion of respondents with excellent abilities in evidence-based clinical decision making, physical examination, tests interpretation, referral services, family medical services, rehabilitation services, first aid, and psychological counseling and treatment was 43.7% (70/119), 42.9% (52/119), 38.7% (46/119), 37.8% (45/119), 33.6% (40/119), 22.7% (27/119), 21.0% (25/119), and 16.8% (20/119), respectively. For the self-assessment of basic public health service ability, the proportion of respondents with excellent abilities in health education, disease prevention and control, health management, health care for key and special groups, handling public health emergencies, management of infectious diseases, epidemiology-based community diagnosis and community health leadership was 38.7% (46/119), 33.6% (40/119), 33.6% (40/119), 26.1% (31/119), 25.2% (30/119), 2.7% (27/119), 22.7% (27/119), and 21.0% (25/119), respectively. For humanistic literacy, the proportion of respondents with excellent abilities in privacy protection, sense of responsibility for patients, understanding patients′ needs, effective communication and cooperation with patients was 82.4% (98/119), 73.9% (88/119), 61.3% (73/119), 55.5% (66/119) and 2.1% (62/119), respectively. For research and teaching, the proportion of respondents with excellence abilities in continuous learning and innovation, training and teaching and literature retrieval was 47.9% (57/119), 10.9% (13/119), 10.1% (12/119), respectively. In addition 56.3% (67/119) of respondents were interested in scientific research, 23.5% (28/119) had published articles as the first author or correspondence author, and only 6.7% (8/119) had scientific research projects in the last 5 years.Conclusion:The post competency of general practitioners who received standardized residency training in our hospital varies in different aspects, their abilities in basic public health service, scientific research and teaching are relatively low, which need to be strengthened.

Construction of an entrustable professional activities framework for medical undergraduates / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To construct an entrustable professional activities (EPAs) assessment framework for undergraduate medical students suited to the national conditions in China.Methods:The Delphi method was used to construct an EPAs assessment framework for medical undergraduates. Twenty-one clinical experts across China were invited to participate in two rounds of Delphi consultation.Results:All the 21 experts completed the two rounds of Delphi consultation. The effective questionnaire response rates of the two rounds of consultation were 100.0% (21/21). For the first-round expert consultation, the W values of importance and feasibility scores of EPAs were 0.182 and 0.173 (both P<0.05), respectively. For the second-round expert consultation, the W values of importance and feasibility scores of EPAs were 0.167 and 0.152 (both P<0.05), respectively. According to the second-round Delphi consultation, the importance and feasibility scores of all 14 EPAs indicators were >3.5 points, with the coefficients of variation <0.25 points. We preliminarily established 12 EPAs indicators and 42 key assessment points and determined the expected entrustment levels of each EPA at different stages for medical undergraduates. Conclusion:This study preliminarily constructed an EPAs assessment framework for medical undergraduates, which provides a new evaluation method for the cultivation of medical undergraduates in China.