آموزش پزشکی (Sep 2013)
Evaluating the Results of 10 Years National Comprehensive Exams of Medical Clerkship, Pre-internship and Dental Continuing Exams in Babol University of Medical Sciences
Abstract
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of educational processes is an important step to determine the success rate of educational system in performing its responsibilities and to detect that educational programs are desirable and matched to educational goals or not. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of 10 years national comprehensive exams of medical clerkship, pre-internship and dental continuing exams in Babol University of Medical Sciences. METHODS: The results of 10 years national comprehensive exams of medical clerkship, pre-internship and dental continuing exams related to Babol University of Medical Sciences which had been published by Ministry of Health and Medical Education Department up to year 2010, were entered to excel software sheets and for each lesson, the mean rank of the university among the participant medical universities was notified, aligned rate was calculated and compared. FINDINGS: In the lessons related to medical clerkship, pre-internship and dental continuing exams, the lessons of genetics, radiology and genetics had the highest aligned rate, respectively.Parasitology, orthopedics and physiology had the lowest aligned rate in these 10 years. CONCLUSION: It seems that the results of these national comprehensive exams, can be a proper baseline for implementation of suitable educational policies in the universities for reinforcement of strength points and intervention in weak points of each university.
