Abstract: Objective To analyze the effect of evaluation and of feedback from online interview in Unified National Graduate Entrance Examination for professional master candidates of clinical medicine at a medical college,and to explore the effectiveness and feasibility of the online remote interview in the background of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods From March to May of 2021, 117 examiners who participated in the retrial at a medical college in Beijing from 2019 to 2021 were investigated by a questionnaire survey. The survey covers their satisfaction with online remote interview,the selection of clinical skill operation assessment methods for clinical skills and the main problems existing in the online remote interview. Fisher's exact test was used for statistical analysis. Results It was found that 97.4% (114/117) and 93.2% (109/117) examiners thought the candidates met their expectations in traditional offline interview in 2019 and in the online interview in 2020 respectively without statistical difference (P=0.215) and 84.6%(99/117) were satisfied with the retrial by online intervies. The examiner gave the highest score (2.53 points) on “sharing the screen to play the pre recorded video with non-standard clinical operation links, and the candidates can watch it and correct it synchronously”. The examiner thinks that the top three problems in the interview were as follows: Difficult to directly acknowlege examinee's personality and mental health [78.6% (92/117)], difficult to evaluate the examinee's clinical skill [77.8% (91/117)], sponge on achivability of network and hardware equipment [76.1% (89/117)] and it is impossible to directly observe the examinee's individual characteristics [76.1% (89/117)]. There are 61.5% (72 / 117) of the examiners believed that the online remote interview can not replace the offline interview. Conclusions The retrial examiners are satisfied with the candidates through remote interview as a retrial method. The quality of the candidats in the online interview is not significantly different with those joining offline interview. It is considered by the examiner the best way to assess clinical skills for candidates to watch clinical operation videos and correct errors synchronously. However, the remote online interview cannot completely replace the traditional offline interview. The remote interview still needs to enhance the pertinence of the investigation of the individual characteristics of candidates and a standardized clinical skill assessment methods and network support are needed.

Key words: Clinical medicine, Professional master, Retrial by online interview