Construction of evaluation index system for postgraduate tutors in medical universities

VernacularTitle:医学研究生导师评价指标体系的构建
Author: Ye CHEN ; Shiming LIU ; Mingsong XU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Medicine; Postgraduate tutor; Evaluation; Index system
From: Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2013;(1):2-5
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To build a scientific,rational and practical evaluation index system for medical tutors.Methods Evaluation framework was initially constructed on the basis of literature analysis.Two rounds questionnaires investigation were conducted soon using Delphi method and the data were analyzed using descriptive analysis,independent samples of non-parametric test (Kreskas-Wallis test),expert reliability analysis,analytic hierarchy process and other methods.Results The results of two rounds of expert questionnaires showed that both recovery rate and acceptance rate of the questionnaires were more than 90％ and overall expert coefficient was 0.8957.The coordinate coefficient of the second-class index was 0.181,x2 =27.148,P ＜ 0.001,and that of the third-class index was 0.157,x2 =127.03,P ＜ 0.001.Experts' opinions were highly consistent.Conclusions Evaluation index system including three first-class indexes,seven second-class indexes and twenty-eight third-class indexes was established for medical tutors.The evaluation index system is of great importance in safeguarding postgraduate culturing quality and strengthening teaching staff construction.