It is not well known in Korea if the entrance examination score has any predictive validity on the graduation score and national licensure examination. In addition, the gender effects of the three scores were investigated. The study was conducted using two years data of the three scores. The three scores from students of class of 98 and 99 were collected. Students who could not complete the medical education in four years were excluded. Also students who could not pass the national licensure examination were excluded as well. Correlations among the three scores were calculated and gender effect was examined by t- test. For the statistical process, SPSS 9.0 was used. The correlation between the scores of the entrance examination and graduation examination is not significant at 5% level. The correlation between the scores of the entrance examination and national licensure examination is not significant at 5% level. The correlation between graduation examination and national licensure examination;0.635 is highly significant at 0.1% level. The score difference between male and female at the entrance examination was not significant at 5% level. The score difference between male and female at the graduation examination and national licensure examination was highly significant at 0.1% level.
Education, Medical ; Female ; Humans ; Korea* ; Licensure* ; Male ; Statistics as Topic*

Qualitative research is very important in educational research as it addresses the “how” and “why” research questions and enables deeper understanding of experiences, phenomena and context. Qualitative research allows you to ask questions that cannot be easily put into numbers to understand human experience. Getting at the everyday realities of some social phenomenon and studying important questions as they are really practiced helps extend knowledge and understanding. To do so, you need to understand the philosophical stance of qualitative research and work from this to develop the research question, study design, data collection methods and data analysis. In this article, I provide an overview of the assumptions underlying qualitative research and the role of the researcher in the qualitative process. I then go on to discuss the type of research objectives which are common in qualitative research, then introduce the main qualitative designs, data collection tools, and finally the basics of qualitative analysis. I introduce the criteria by which you can judge the quality of qualitative research. Many classic references are cited in this article, and I urge you to seek out some of these further reading to inform your qualitative research program.
Data Collection ; Education, Medical* ; Humans ; Methods ; Qualitative Research ; Statistics as Topic

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to find out how much influence nursing students' environmental consciousness and knowledge of medical waste have on their attitudes toward medical waste. METHODS: The subjects were 211 nursing students recruited from 2 universities. Data were collected with a structured self-report questionnaire comprising measures of environmental consciousness, and knowledge of and attitude toward medical waste. Data analysis was conducted with the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. RESULTS: A total of 211 copies of the questionnaire were used for the final analysis, except for 9 untrusted responses out of 220 that included missing values. Those subjects' environmental consciousness who received environmental education in middle and high schools was higher (t=3.15, p=.002). The higher their grades, the better their knowledge of medical waste (F=3.40, p=.035). Those subjects’ knowledge of medical waste who received medical waste education was relatively high (t=3.14, p=.002). Those subjects with clinical practice experience had more sensitive attitudes toward medical waste (t=2.06, p=.041). Those subjects' attitudes toward Medical waste who received medical waste education at the universities were relatively high (t=2.04, p=.043). The subjects' environmental consciousness was positively correlated with their attitudes toward medical waste (r=.44, p<.001). The most influential factor in their attitudes toward medical waste is their environmental attitudes and medical waste education. CONCLUSION: The higher the nursing students' environmental consciousness, the higher their attitudes toward medical waste. It is necessary to provide environment and medical waste education for nursing students in order to strengthen their environmental consciousness and attitude toward medical waste.
Consciousness ; Education ; Humans ; Medical Waste ; Nursing ; Statistics as Topic ; Students, Nursing

1989 is the 25th anniversary of the first doctors trained in Papua New Guinea at the Papuan Medical College (PMC). By the end of 1970 PMC had produced 44 doctors. The following year it became the Medical Faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), which had graduated 318 doctors by February 1989. National doctors now make up approximately two-thirds of the total number of doctors in the country. The largest category of national doctors includes those working with the Health Department, but not at headquarters or specialist medical officer (SMO) level. Private practitioners constitute the second largest category, with almost one-fifth of fully registered national doctors. While postgraduate training programs have been established for clinical and public health specialists, vocational training for general practitioners has been mainly ignored. Private practitioners represent a considerable, and growing, manpower resource in urban areas, and ways need to be found to utilize their services in the public sector. 20% of national private practitioners have the M. Med. degree and 24% of those with the M. Med. are currently in private practice. Medical graduates from PMC and UPNG have a good record in postgraduate education: 37 have passed the M. Med., 62 have obtained a postgraduate medical diploma from UPNG and many have obtained overseas postgraduate diplomas and degrees. It is projected that 80% of SMOs will be national doctors within five years. An increased intake of national medical students into the Medical Faculty is needed now if most doctors in the country are to be nationals by the year 2000.
Education, Medical - history ; Education, Medical - statistics & ; numerical data ; History, 20th Century ; Medicine - statistics & ; numerical data ; Papua New Guinea

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of medical teachers in the process of adapting flipped learning method through a phenomenological approach. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews with five medical teachers from two medical colleges and one medical school were conducted in December, 2017. Data analysis was done according to Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological methodology. RESULTS: A total of 160 unique significant statements were extracted. These statements generated 17 formulated meanings that were categorized into seven theme clusters and four theme categories. Main themes were: (1) teacher with high levels of passion and motivation; (2) hurdles of flipped learning: students were still passive, struggling in preparing for flipped learning; (3) positive changes from flipped learning: changes to classroom environment and teachers' reflection through experience; and (4) challenges of flipped learning: remaining tasks for teachers, expansion of flipped learning. CONCLUSION: Through phenomenological approach, researchers were able to elucidate categories about the experience of medical teachers when attempting flipped learning. Although medical teachers did not have the exact same idea on how flipped learning was conducted and implemented, the perception of flipped learning, or difficulties in class activities, they were still wondering how they could teach students well. This study might draw more attention to flipped learning and stimulate educational and institutional supports to improve teaching and learning in medical schools.
Education, Medical ; Humans ; Learning* ; Methods ; Motivation ; Qualitative Research ; Schools, Medical ; Statistics as Topic ; Students, Medical*

End-of-life care competencies have been perceived as important and essential, so it has been suggested that end-of-life care be studied in undergraduate medical education. However, end-of-life care curriculum has mostly focused on acquisition of knowledge and skills rather than attitudes. Therefore, we aimed to explore whether education about death affects medical students' attitudes towards care for dying patients and perception of death anxiety, meaning in life, and self-esteem. A total of 15 first- or second-year medical students were surveyed with questionnaires before and after completing a 6-week death education course. Paired data analysis showed that participants' attitudes towards caring for terminally ill patients and their caregivers improved significantly (t=−2.84, p=0.013) with an effect size of 0.73. In contrast, no significant changes were found in death anxiety, meaning in life, or self-esteem. All participants agreed that formal teaching about death and dying must be encouraged in medical schools. Our results suggest that death education may positively influence attitudes towards end-of-life care. Although replication with larger samples is necessary, this preliminary finding may support the importance of developmentally appropriate end-of-life care education in medical schools.
Anxiety ; Attitude to Death ; Caregivers ; Curriculum ; Education ; Education, Medical, Undergraduate ; Humans ; Schools, Medical ; Statistics as Topic ; Students, Medical ; Terminal Care ; Terminally Ill

Child ; Education, Medical, Graduate ; Humans ; Nutritional Sciences ; statistics & numerical data ; trends ; Pediatrics ; Statistics as Topic

Education, Medical, Graduate ; standards ; General Surgery ; education ; Humans ; Singapore ; Workload ; statistics & numerical data

PURPOSE: Since 2006, Korea University Medical College has offered a medical communication skills program for third-year medical students. This study examined the relationship between medical student interview performance in a medical communications skills course and students' patient-physician interaction (PPI) scores on the Clinical Performance Examination (CPX). METHODS: Participants were 130 fourth-year students who took both the medical communication skills course in 2006 and the CPX in 2007. Students' scores in performance evaluation, assessed by SP interview, and their PPI scores were used for data analysis. RESULTS: This study hypothesized that students who performed well in the medical communication skills course would have high PPI scores on the CPX. Students' PPI total and individual item scores showed statistically significant differences by the performance level of the medical communication skills course. Some of these differences were statistically significant, even after controlling for the influence of GPA. CONCLUSION: This study has practical implications for medical communications education, demonstrating that the knowledge and skills that are acquired in a communications skills course can be maintained.
Clinical Competence ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Korea ; Physician-Patient Relations ; Statistics as Topic ; Students, Medical

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality type test book, which is widely used in the field of personal counseling, team organization, school education and research. This study carried out MBTI of 361 medical students in the second grade of premedical course of Keimyung University School of Medicine from 2014 to 2018, and analyzed the data to use them for the students' education. The personality type was mostly distributed to ISTJ, ISTP, ESTP and ESTJ in order among 16 types. According to preference tendency, it was found out that the introverted type was extroverted, the recognition type was intuition type, the thinking type was emotional type, and the recognition type was more distributed than the judgment type. The psychological functions were ST, SF, NF, NT. MBTI type analysis of medical students shows that it is possible to organize members in group activities to improve their ability to understand themselves and understand others in class scenes. In addition, we expect to be able to design for improvement of stress management, conflict management, and communication ability. In the career counseling scene, in addition to the MBTI data analysis, it is expected that it will be possible to recommend a major suitable for the student personality type in parallel with other psychological tests. In addition, we expect to study the preferred field of study, satisfaction with the major in the future research by continuous data accumulation and analysis.
Communication ; Counseling ; Education ; Education, Medical* ; Humans ; Intuition ; Judgment ; Personality Inventory ; Psychological Tests ; Statistics as Topic ; Students, Medical* ; Thinking ; Vocational Guidance