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CPIRD: A successful Thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates

The programme titled “Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors” (CPIRD) is a rural medical education project launched in 1994 in Thailand. This study aimed to compare the academic performances in medical study over five years and the pass rates in national medical license examin...

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Autores principales: Yi, Yanhua, Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi, Sriplung, Hutcha, Rueanarong, Chulalak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: F1000Research 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26594332
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6638.1
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author Yi, Yanhua
Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi
Sriplung, Hutcha
Rueanarong, Chulalak
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Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi
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description The programme titled “Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors” (CPIRD) is a rural medical education project launched in 1994 in Thailand. This study aimed to compare the academic performances in medical study over five years and the pass rates in national medical license examinations (MLE) between students enrolled in CPIRD and two other tracks. Grade point average (GPA) over five years and results of MLEs for four cohorts of students enrolled from 2003 to 2006 in Prince of Songkla University were collected from the registration department. A longitudinal analysis was used to compare the GPA over time for medical students enrolled in CPIRD and those from the national and direct regional tracks through generalized estimating equation (GEE) models. The MLE pass rates were compared using chi-square and fisher's exact tests as appropriate. Female students dominated the CPIRD group. GPAs in the first three years in the CPIRD group were significantly lower than those of the other two groups, this disparity narrowed in the fourth and fifth years. For step one of the MLE (basic sciences), cohorts 2003 and 2006 of the CPIRD group had a significantly lower pass rate than the other two groups but there was no significant difference in cohort 2004 and cohort 2005. The CPIRD step two and three MLE pass rates were not significantly different from the national track in all cohorts and lower than the direct track only for step two in cohort 2003 and step three in cohort 2006. The step three pass rate of the CPIRD group in cohort 2004 was significantly higher than the other two tracks. Despite weaker competency in basic science, the CPIRD was successful in forming clinical competency.
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spelling pubmed-46482102015-11-20 CPIRD: A successful Thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates Yi, Yanhua Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi Sriplung, Hutcha Rueanarong, Chulalak F1000Res Research Article The programme titled “Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors” (CPIRD) is a rural medical education project launched in 1994 in Thailand. This study aimed to compare the academic performances in medical study over five years and the pass rates in national medical license examinations (MLE) between students enrolled in CPIRD and two other tracks. Grade point average (GPA) over five years and results of MLEs for four cohorts of students enrolled from 2003 to 2006 in Prince of Songkla University were collected from the registration department. A longitudinal analysis was used to compare the GPA over time for medical students enrolled in CPIRD and those from the national and direct regional tracks through generalized estimating equation (GEE) models. The MLE pass rates were compared using chi-square and fisher's exact tests as appropriate. Female students dominated the CPIRD group. GPAs in the first three years in the CPIRD group were significantly lower than those of the other two groups, this disparity narrowed in the fourth and fifth years. For step one of the MLE (basic sciences), cohorts 2003 and 2006 of the CPIRD group had a significantly lower pass rate than the other two groups but there was no significant difference in cohort 2004 and cohort 2005. The CPIRD step two and three MLE pass rates were not significantly different from the national track in all cohorts and lower than the direct track only for step two in cohort 2003 and step three in cohort 2006. The step three pass rate of the CPIRD group in cohort 2004 was significantly higher than the other two tracks. Despite weaker competency in basic science, the CPIRD was successful in forming clinical competency. F1000Research 2015-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4648210/ /pubmed/26594332 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6638.1 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Yi Y et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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CPIRD: A successful Thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates
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title_fullStr CPIRD: A successful Thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates
title_full_unstemmed CPIRD: A successful Thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates
title_short CPIRD: A successful Thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates
title_sort cpird: a successful thai programme to produce clinically competent medical graduates
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26594332
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6638.1
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