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How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine?
Abstract
Aim: Doctors who want to receive expertise training have to take the Medical Specialty Exam (TUS). That’s why they have to study for TUS in the last period of their undergraduate medical education. However, the content of TUS is different from the undergraduate medical education content (UÇEP) which is determined by the national core education program. This situation causes physicians preparing for TUS to ignore basic medical knowledge. This study aims to determine how much TUS, which is the main purpose of undergraduate medical education, measures basic medicine. Our study is the first research on this subject.
Methods: In this study, a descriptive scanning model and document analysis method were used. The sample of the study consists of TUS clinical science questions belonging to the years 2009-2018. The 2009-2018 basic medical sciences TUS questions and all TUS questions asked in 2019-2020 were not included in the study. After the 2280 questions that could be reached from this sample were evaluated by a commission formed by the faculty members of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, the data obtained were analyzed with the SPSS 23.0 package program.
Results: In the study, 3 different faculty members were asked to score all questions between 0 and 9 according to the degree of basic medicine measurement. The average of the scores given by the three faculty members was found as 1.64 ± 3.02. All 3 faculty members gave 0 points to 1622 questions and 9, which is considered full points, to 177 questions. When the change in the average scores according to the exams was examined, it was seen that the highest average score was the spring TUS of 2009 with 3.2 points. The lowest score was the 2018 autumn TUS, with a score of 0.8. It was seen that the scores given by the three faculty members independently were compatible with each other and showed a strong positive correlation (r=0,970; p <0.001).
Conclusions: Even though undergraduate education is tried to be standardized with the National Core Education Program (UCEP), as a result of our research, it has been seen that the content of the questions asked in TUS is incompatible with UÇEP and therefore basic medicine. As the years progressed, it was determined that the questions measuring basic medicine were replaced by questions containing detailed information of the branches. We think that this situation will constitute an obstacle for undergraduate medical education students to acquire fundamental medical proficiency.
Methods: In this study, a descriptive scanning model and document analysis method were used. The sample of the study consists of TUS clinical science questions belonging to the years 2009-2018. The 2009-2018 basic medical sciences TUS questions and all TUS questions asked in 2019-2020 were not included in the study. After the 2280 questions that could be reached from this sample were evaluated by a commission formed by the faculty members of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, the data obtained were analyzed with the SPSS 23.0 package program.
Results: In the study, 3 different faculty members were asked to score all questions between 0 and 9 according to the degree of basic medicine measurement. The average of the scores given by the three faculty members was found as 1.64 ± 3.02. All 3 faculty members gave 0 points to 1622 questions and 9, which is considered full points, to 177 questions. When the change in the average scores according to the exams was examined, it was seen that the highest average score was the spring TUS of 2009 with 3.2 points. The lowest score was the 2018 autumn TUS, with a score of 0.8. It was seen that the scores given by the three faculty members independently were compatible with each other and showed a strong positive correlation (r=0,970; p <0.001).
Conclusions: Even though undergraduate education is tried to be standardized with the National Core Education Program (UCEP), as a result of our research, it has been seen that the content of the questions asked in TUS is incompatible with UÇEP and therefore basic medicine. As the years progressed, it was determined that the questions measuring basic medicine were replaced by questions containing detailed information of the branches. We think that this situation will constitute an obstacle for undergraduate medical education students to acquire fundamental medical proficiency.
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Çalışmadaki katkılarından dolayı Prof. Dr. Yusuf Üstü’ye, Dr Öğr. Üyesi Basri Furkan Dağcıoğlu’na, Abdulkadir Kaya’ya ve Samet Basri Taşlı’ya teşekkür ederiz.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
August 31, 2022
Submission Date
January 17, 2022
Acceptance Date
April 26, 2022
Published in Issue
Year 2022 Volume: 21 Number: 64
APA
Aydoğan, S., & Keskin, A. (2022). How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine? Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası, 21(64), 42-49. https://doi.org/10.25282/ted.1059067
AMA
1.Aydoğan S, Keskin A. How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine? Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası. 2022;21(64):42-49. doi:10.25282/ted.1059067
Chicago
Aydoğan, Serkan, and Ahmet Keskin. 2022. “How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine?”. Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası 21 (64): 42-49. https://doi.org/10.25282/ted.1059067.
EndNote
Aydoğan S, Keskin A (August 1, 2022) How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine? Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası 21 64 42–49.
IEEE
[1]S. Aydoğan and A. Keskin, “How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine?”, Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası, vol. 21, no. 64, pp. 42–49, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.25282/ted.1059067.
ISNAD
Aydoğan, Serkan - Keskin, Ahmet. “How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine?”. Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası 21/64 (August 1, 2022): 42-49. https://doi.org/10.25282/ted.1059067.
JAMA
1.Aydoğan S, Keskin A. How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine? Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası. 2022;21:42–49.
MLA
Aydoğan, Serkan, and Ahmet Keskin. “How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine?”. Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası, vol. 21, no. 64, Aug. 2022, pp. 42-49, doi:10.25282/ted.1059067.
Vancouver
1.Serkan Aydoğan, Ahmet Keskin. How Much Does the Medical Specialization Exam Measure Basic Medicine? Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası. 2022 Aug. 1;21(64):42-9. doi:10.25282/ted.1059067