Damir Secic, Dzenana Husremovic, Eldan Kapur, Zaim Jatic, Nina Hadziahmetovic, Benjamin Vojnikovic, Almir Fajkic, Amir Meholjic, LejlaBradic, Amila Hadzic. Medical students versus family physicians assessment of practical and logical values of pathophysiology multiple choice questions.Testing strategies can have a very strong, positive or negative effect on the learning process. The aim of this study was to examine the degree of consistency in evaluating the practicality and logic of the questions from pathophysiology test between students and family medicine doctor in undergraduate courses. The study comprised 77 family medicine doctors and 51 students. 10 questions were taken from cardio pathophysiology and 10 questions from pulmonary pathophysiology,
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It is important to note that the information should be relevant, in order to prevent huge loss of knowledge (10).
The main objective of the undergraduate part in the medical schools in our country is that medical students are trained to work in primary care as well as family / general medicine doctors. In the syllabus of Medical faculty, University of Sarajevo, the purpose of the pathophysiology, as a subject, is the adoption of the appropriate level of knowledge and skills in the field of pathophysiology necessary for the successful continuation of the study of medicine, with the aim of mastering the knowledge and practical skills for acquiring the title doctor of medicine. Upon completion of the studies above, students acquire the title of doctor of medicine. Passing the state examination, they are licensed to work independently as a family / general physicians (GPs) in primary care. Accordingly, questions from the tests mentioned above are designed to examine the knowledge in the field of family / general physician rather than a specialist or subspecialist, considering that it is very difficult to make a sharp boundary between the above category of …show more content…
Qualitative analysis of questions is usually done by staff that is compiled by experts in the field and experienced in testing. In our case, because it is a test of undergraduate course, evaluation was carried out by family medicine doctors, most of which are family medicine specialists. The main reason for choosing them is because medical students’ work, upon completion of six years study, is closest to the work of family medicine doctors. Therefore, we believe that family medicine doctors can assess questions fairly well, because of their daily practice as family-general medicine doctors. Also, according to the Harris et al. (10) postgraduate program of family medicine covers the widest range of medical disciplines. If the questions regarding cardiology where to be checked by internal medicine subspecialists (cardiologist) or internal medicine specialists–the questions would have been observed from their own
It is important to note that the information should be relevant, in order to prevent huge loss of knowledge (10).
The main objective of the undergraduate part in the medical schools in our country is that medical students are trained to work in primary care as well as family / general medicine doctors. In the syllabus of Medical faculty, University of Sarajevo, the purpose of the pathophysiology, as a subject, is the adoption of the appropriate level of knowledge and skills in the field of pathophysiology necessary for the successful continuation of the study of medicine, with the aim of mastering the knowledge and practical skills for acquiring the title doctor of medicine. Upon completion of the studies above, students acquire the title of doctor of medicine. Passing the state examination, they are licensed to work independently as a family / general physicians (GPs) in primary care. Accordingly, questions from the tests mentioned above are designed to examine the knowledge in the field of family / general physician rather than a specialist or subspecialist, considering that it is very difficult to make a sharp boundary between the above category of …show more content…
Qualitative analysis of questions is usually done by staff that is compiled by experts in the field and experienced in testing. In our case, because it is a test of undergraduate course, evaluation was carried out by family medicine doctors, most of which are family medicine specialists. The main reason for choosing them is because medical students’ work, upon completion of six years study, is closest to the work of family medicine doctors. Therefore, we believe that family medicine doctors can assess questions fairly well, because of their daily practice as family-general medicine doctors. Also, according to the Harris et al. (10) postgraduate program of family medicine covers the widest range of medical disciplines. If the questions regarding cardiology where to be checked by internal medicine subspecialists (cardiologist) or internal medicine specialists–the questions would have been observed from their own