A study on the evaluation in the medical school

Abstract

This study was designed to reveal the problems on the evaluations made in the medical school in Japan, including student testings, evaluation of teaching effectiveness in pregraduate education, evaluation of graduate trainees in the hospital and peer review of faculty members. And a new policy and procedures for making evaluations in the medical school are proposed. 1) Testing in the pregraduate students should not be generous in marking, because they may fail in the national examination for becoming a medical doctor immediately after the graduation. 2) The teaching evaluation is very effective not only for the feed-back of teaching but also for peer review of teachers. 3) An evaluation form for graduate trainee in the hospital was newly devised. 4) A policy and procedures for evaluating faculty members were proposed, and an evaluation form for clinical faculty members was newly devised.