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This paper discusses the problems of current national physicians licensure examination in Korea and summarizes the possible solutions that have been stated in several meetings on subject matter. This paper firstly reviews the historical background of the examination system, which has been experiencing many changes in examination subjects and the passing standards since the first examination was offered in 1952. This paper, then, summarizes the problems and deficiencies of the system that have been frequently presented in meetings having been held to improve the system. Quality of the question items such as validity, reliability, and objectivities together with examination management system have been major issues. This paper suggests that a standing coordinating committee be organized with members representing various related organizations such as Korean Medical Association, National Teacher Training Center, The Korean Society of Medical Education, The Deans' Associations of Korean Medical Schools, and The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to study and solve the problems and improve the examination system.
Education, Medical ; Korea* ; Licensure* ; Schools, Medical

Korean Society of Medical Education was organized in May, 1983 to help and encourage its members to do various medical education researches and share the study results through formal and informal society's academic activities. For several years, however, there has been no activity until the society was reorganized in March 1989. Since then, the society has already held two conferences together with seminars and one workshop and publishes journal once in every 6 months. To meet the need of members and their interests, the secretariat of the Society planned a questionnaire survey on society's future academic activities. A simple questionnaire containing questions of selected individual characteristics together with the number of academic meetings the members want to have every years, and the particular area of interests they have in relation to medical education. One hundred and twenty members out of 280 returned the questionnaires and the major results obtained from the analysis of those questionnaires are as follows. 1. Of all respondents, 116 were male and only 4 were female. Most of the respondents were in the age group of 40s and 50s (75.8%), and have been engaged in medical education for more than 10 years (70.9%). 2. 66.7% of the respondents wanted to have one conference per year whereas 33.3% wanted 2 conferences per year. This difference was not statistically different by selected personal characteristics such as sex, aged and years of teaching. 3. Five major areas of interests of the respondents were setting objectives of medical education (33.3%), student evaluation (30.8%), medical ethics education (30.0%), teacher evaluation (29.2%), and the national physicians licensure examination (28.3%). The areas of interests were slightly different among different age groups, years of teaching, and between those in basic medical science and in clinical science. One of the things this study suggests is that the society focuses more basic field of medical education such as setting goals of medical education and developing better methodology of student evaluation.
Congresses as Topic ; Education ; Education, Medical ; Ethics, Medical ; Female ; Humans ; Licensure ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires

The medical educators in Korean are acutely aware of the need for the revision of the medical education programs in Korea which have many drawbacks. In planning for a new medical curriculum, we examined the problems of the traditional curricula of medical schools in Korea, followed by a review of the "integrated" curricula of other countries. Finally, we have chosen a program that we consider best adaptable to the medical schools in Korea. We believe that the objectives of the new medical curriculum should be to prepare the student to acquire sufficient knowledge, skills, and attitudes which on graduation will allow him to further pursue various specialities of medicine, including areas of basic medicine and a career as a medical scientist. Our approach to medical education in that of (a) integrated teaching, (b) medically and patient oriented, (c) problem-oriented, (d) student-centered, (e) identifying both the core and marginal material in course content and (f) encouraging and motivating for self-learning. The major portion of the program for the new curriculum includes eight weeks of introductory course followed by 52 for the body system courses, which run on an interdisciplinary basis between basic sciences and clinical disciplines during the first two years. The student will then enter the final two years of clerkship with various clinical rotations. We also propose the establishment of a learning center where most of the audio-visual materials used in the curriculum will be shelved. Finally, We propose the administrative structure of the medical programme which will allow the interdisciplinary approach to medical education.
Curriculum* ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Korea ; Learning ; Schools, Medical

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