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Summary.Recent research on multiple choice questions has identified deficiencies of inadequate content‐equivalence and item‐writer bias. Systematic methods of writing multiple choice questions are being advocated as effective responses. This article describes preliminary development of a new item‐writing method. Details of the procedure, called item modelling, are pro

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01042.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

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Summary.Two methods of data entry for computer‐assisted learning (CAL) programs were assessed and the acceptability of two forms of CAL to 100 medical students determined. Sixty‐two per cent preferred keyboard entry of data compared with 26% who preferred the light‐pen. There was no preference for dynamic simulation programs over patient management programs. The majority of the students preferred using CAL in groups with a supervisor to provide further explanation when required. Ninety‐three per cent of students favoured more teaching using this

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01043.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

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Summary.A total of 196 intern medical officers who had graduated from the four medical schools in Sri Lanka in 1984 indicated their attitudes towards anaesthesia as a medical specialty in response to a postal questionnaire. Eighty per cent of the graduates considered anaesthesia to be an established specialty in Sri Lanka, while 17% felt that the specialty had limited clinical application. A total of 62% of the graduates were not aware, prior to their entry to medical school, that anaesthesia was related to medical practice. All the graduates indicated that the intra‐operative role of the anaesthetist was on a par with that of the surgeon, but 40% felt that the pre‐ and postoperative roles were of a secondary nature. Overall, 42% considered that an anaesthetist acts as an assistant to the surgeon. The graduates were of the opinion that only 35% of the patients undergoing surgery were appreciative of the services rendered by an anaesthetist. Fifty per cent of the graduates considered exposure to the specialty in the undergraduate curriculum as inadequate. Anaesthesia was chosen as the first career preference by 1.5%. The dominant reasons for not selecting anaesthesia as a career specialty were: minimal patient contact and patient recognition (62%), and lack of recognition of the specialty by society (54%).Anaesthetists in Sri Lanka are challenged to alter the perceptions associated with the specialty, which are probably a result of chronic staff shortages restricting practice to the confines of operating theat

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01044.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

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Summary.A total of 196 graduates from the four medical schools in Sri Lanka responded to a postal questionnaire on their career preferences and factors influencing the choice of specialty. Medicine (38%), surgery (21%), paediatrics (15%) and obstetrics (12%) were the most popular choices. ‘Service’ specialties such as anaesthesia (1.5%), pathology (1.5%) and radiology (i%) were strikingly less attractive. Community medicine (2%) and general practice (2%) were similarly unattractive; medical administration (0.5%) was the least popular choice. In the choice of a career, opportunity for direct contact with patients (59%) was the most important determinant when compared to financial reward (12%), social prestige (10%) and fixed hours of work (12%). Research prospects (6%) and teaching opportunity (5%) were relatively unimportant considerations. The graduates preferred employment in the state health service (65%) to teaching in the clinical departments of medical schools (26%) and full‐time private practice (7%). Pre‐ and paraclinical departments of medical schools attracted only 2% of the graduates. A total of 80% of the graduates wished to practise in the capital city or a major provincial city, while 10% chose to seek employment overseas.These results will be useful in planning undergraduate and postgraduate education, and in designing policies to attract manpower to the scarcity and high priority disciplines, so that the imbalances encountered would be minimal in the

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01045.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01046.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01047.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0737-3805    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID