2022 Volume 6 Article ID: 2022-007
The “Guideline for Practical Training for Pharmacy and Hospital” states to universities that “it is essential to forward relevant information regarding the contents and progress of the learning at universities in advance to the training facilities prior to the initiation of the practical training.” Approximately 2,400 medical students from 14 universities in the Kinki region are allocated to training facilities in the entire Kinki region every year. These training facilities accept students from different universities. Providing achievements assessed according to each university’s criteria would cause confusion at the training facilities. Therefore, the Kinki Regional Allocation Office promulgated that the training practice would be optimized smoothly according to students’ accomplishment level by evaluating and presenting their learning progress using the unified assessment standards at the training facilities. The Office also expected that formulating the unified assessment standards would contribute to the review of the pedagogy and learning materials of preparatory clinical education at the universities. Here, the circumstances of the formulation and application of “the Kinki region’s summarized assessment chart for preparatory clinical education” are discussed.
