Trial of “Nationwide Kampo Web Test” Targeting Medical Professionals Nationwide

Makoto SEGAWA; Norio IIZUKA; Hajime NAKAE; Koichiro USUKU; Koichiro TANAKA; Yuji NAKAMURA; Hiroyuki OGIHARA; Yoshihiko HAMAMOTO

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Trial of “Nationwide Kampo Web Test” Targeting Medical Professionals Nationwide

VernacularTitle:全国の医療従事者を対象とした「全国漢方Webテスト」の試み
Author: Makoto SEGAWA ¹ ; Norio IIZUKA ¹ ; Hajime NAKAE ² ; Koichiro USUKU ³ ; Koichiro TANAKA ⁴ ; Yuji NAKAMURA ⁵ ; Hiroyuki OGIHARA ⁶ ; Yoshihiko HAMAMOTO ⁷
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1. Department of Kampo Medicine, Yamaguchi University Hospital
2. Yamaguchi Health Examination Center
3. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine
4. Medi Messe Sakurajyuji Kumamoto Cocoon Lab.
5. Department of Traditional Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University
6. Department of Pain Relief, Shobara Red Cross Hospital
7. Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama Collage
Keywords: Kampo; web test; lifelong learning; discrimination index; information and communication technology
From:Kampo Medicine 2024;75(2):101-112
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: A 25-question “Nationwide Kampo Web Test” was conducted to evaluate the basic knowledge and diagnostic ability of Kampo among medical professionals nationwide. We analyzed the scores of all 608 examinees (241 doctors, 257 pharmacists, 77 others, 12 acupuncturists, 10 nurses, and 11 dentists) and evaluated the test quality. The performance of all examinees was 67.7 ± 16.9 points (mean score ± standard deviation). Among the doctors, the mean score of Kampo medicine specialists (83.8 ± 8.7 points) was significantly higher than that of non-specialists (65.3 ± 16.3 points) (p<0.0001). The performance of doctors who prescribed 20 or more Kampo medicines (78.4 ± 11.5 points) was significantly higher than that of other doctors (p<0.0001). Among the 25 questions, the difficulty levels of 13, 8, and 4 were easy, moderate, and hard (correct answer rates: 70% or more, 40-70%, and less than 40%), respectively. The ability of 13 questions (52%) to distinguish between good and poor performers was extremely high (discrimination index of 0.5 or higher). Collectively, these results supported the good performance of our test, suggesting that it is a highly practical learning achievement evaluation system that could utilize information and communication technology and is expected to be used in future lifelong learning in the field of Kampo medicine.