Chinese Journal of Medical Education ›› 2023, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (1): 72-76.DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115259-20220424-00535

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Comparative analysis and reflection on comprehensive written test of Medical Practitioners Examination in China and Japan

Liu Kan1, Zhuang Ran2, Zheng Shuyuan1, Wang Zhenyu3, Xiao Tian3, Tian Tian4, Zhao Jia1   

  1. 1Department of Foreign Languages, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China;
    2Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032,China;
    3Office of Teaching Affairs and Scientific Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032,China;
    4Special Diagnosts Department of The Third Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
  • Received:2022-04-24 Online:2023-01-01 Published:2022-12-29
  • Contact: Zhao Jia, Email: 63718550@qq.com
  • Supported by:
    2020 Teaching and Research Project at Air Force Medical University (ZL202018)

Abstract: With the advancement of the competency-based medical education reform, both China and Japan have carried out a series of reforms to test the competencies of clinicians in respective Medical Practitioners Examinations (MPE). How to reconstruct a high-fidelity representation of clinical environments by designing examination questions to assess comprehensive ability and clinical thinking in a simulated setting, has become an urgent problem to be solved in the medical examinations in both countries. By comparing the questions of Medical Practitioners Examinations between China and Japan, it is concluded that both countries are committed to improving the quality of clinical case type examination questions. The Japanese clinical case type examination questions, starting with increasing the proportion of fusion type examination questions, making clinical case type examination questions with higher cognitive levels, practically examining examinees' information processing, disease induction and reasoning, and ability to make decisions at the moment, which are valuable to inform China's MPE.

Key words: Medical Practitioners Examination, Case-based test questions, Competence, Clinical thinking, Clinicians

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