Training of Medical Personnel in the 21st Century and CBT National Medical Licensing Examination
10.11307/mededjapan.53.3_237
- VernacularTitle:5. 21世紀の医療人養成と医師国家試験CBT化
- Author:
Hirobumi KAWAKITA
;
Shigeru UEDA
;
Hiroyuki KURIHARA
- Keywords:
medical education content;
national medical licensing examination;
computer based testing
- From:Medical Education
2022;53(3):237-241
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
We are conducting research funded by a grant from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan to create standardized, high-quality medical education content that incorporates video, images, and sound files, to develop a system that can be widely used by everyone from medical students to clinicians, and to create CBT-enabled examination questions for the future CBT National Medical Licensing Examination. The research aims to conduct trial examinations, study issues and measures to deal with them, and make proposals for their implementation. With regard to the CBT system for the National Medical Licensing Examination, questions incorporating video, images and sound files were prepared based on the scope of the current national examination, and a trial examination was conducted with the cooperation of 10 universities nationwide using the CBT examination system via the internet. The trial was generally conducted smoothly, with smooth playback of videos, etc., and no system problems. In conducting this research, we believe that it should not be considered as an extension of the previous national examination initiatives for doctors, nor should it be regarded merely as a technological initiative. In addition, as advances in AI-based diagnostic technology and patients’ medical literacy are foreseen to change significantly in 2040, the competence of doctors to cope with these changes will be questioned. For this reason, it is fundamental to consider medical education content and examination questions for the CBT National Medical Licensing Examination with a view to the ideal image of doctors of the future.
