RESUMO
Discussions on the postgraduate medical school and the speciality training course after graduation had been conducted 2 times in 1994 among the members of the working group on postgraduate medical school and speciality training in Japanese Society for Medical Education. Results of the discussion are reported in this paper as a proposal for the improvement of the present state of education and training in the postgraduate medical schools in our country. In this report, several important proposals which need further discussions such as the shortening the clinical course in postgraduate medical school to 3 years from present 4 years and necessity of establishing the obligatory course for training the basic technology for life science research are presented. It is mandatory to have full time teaching staff as well as exclusive space for postgraduate course in each school to improve the of education of postgraduate medical schools.
RESUMO
A comparison of simple true-false questions (STFQ) and multiple choice questions (MCQ) plus multiple true-false questions (MTFQ), in the same contents was done at the graduation examination of our department (on 1987. 12. 7.). The mean score of STFQ was 83.7 mark and its standerd deviation was 4.6 mark, and in MCQ plus MTFQ the value was 77.1, 9.0, respectively. At the same student, the mark of STFQ and MCQ plus MTFQ was correlated. We concluded that the handling of the question with high percent of correct answer was induction of the individual total item check method. Then, evaluation got more validity.
