Abstract
Background: Medical education systems adopted by universities usually include methods for school admissions and assessment of the results of postgraduate education. However, in Japan, no studies have been conducted to examine the relationships among students’ scores in admission examinations, their performance in other examinations following admission, and clinical resident training.
Objective: The present study, involving physicians who had complete clinical resident training, aimed to examine the relationships among their scores in admission examinations, those in other examinations following admission, and performance in clinical resident training.
Subjects: The subjects were 37 physicians (21 males and 16 females) who had entered the Faculty of Medicine of Juntendo University between 2006 and 2008 and completed clinical resident training at Juntendo University Hospital.
Methods: The relationships among the results of entrance examinations, academic performance following admission, and the results of evaluation of clinical resident training were analyzed by focusing on specific items.
Results: There was no correlation between scores in entrance examinations and those of evaluation of performance in clinical resident training. Regarding academic performance following admission, scores in OSCEs and performance in clinical clerkship were correlated with many items of the clinical resident training.
Conclusion: It is significantly important to implement education in relation to OSCEs as common achievement tests and clinical clerkship. In addition to OSCEs prior to clinical clerkship, the implementation of undergraduate OSCEs should also be considered, including their methods and evaluation procedures.
