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Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China
BACKGROUND: Medical education accreditation in China has been conducted by the Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education (WCAME) and 129 medical schools have completed accreditation by December 2021. Despite studies on the standards, process and effectiveness of accreditation, the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9158399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35641929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03491-8 |
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author | Li, Shaowen Su, Kun Li, Peiwen Sun, Yifei Pan, Ying Wang, Weimin Cui, Huixian |
author_facet | Li, Shaowen Su, Kun Li, Peiwen Sun, Yifei Pan, Ying Wang, Weimin Cui, Huixian |
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description | BACKGROUND: Medical education accreditation in China has been conducted by the Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education (WCAME) and 129 medical schools have completed accreditation by December 2021. Despite studies on the standards, process and effectiveness of accreditation, the actual information transparency of accredited medical schools in China has not been examined. The study investigated the status of publicly available information from WCAME-accredited medical schools in China, and whether public availability of information had significant differences among different types of universities. METHODS: The 129 medical schools’ official websites were reviewed for the 21 criteria of the WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement: Basic Medical Education. Dichotomous method was used to record information as presence or absence. SPSS was utilized for descriptive and ANOVA analyses. RESULTS: The mean of the publicly available information on the 21 criteria was 13.77 ± 3.57, and only 5 (3.9%) accredited medical schools had all relevant information available. Publicly available information on Governance (100%) and Administration (100%) was the most, whereas information on Assessment in support of learning (16.3%) was the least. Public availability of information differed significantly among schools accredited with higher (18.15 ± 2.16), medium (13.69 ± 3.41) and lower results (12.79 ± 3.19) (F = 14.71, p < 0.05). Medical universities and comprehensive universities did not show significant differences in their overall information availability (F = 0.25, p > 0.05). Central government funded universities had a remarkably larger amount of publicly available information than local government funded universities (17.86 ± 1.98 vs. 12.75 ± 2.93, p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Public availability of information from the accredited medical schools in China needs to be improved to promote transparency and continuous quality improvement, especially with regard to information on curriculum, assessment and quality assurance. Explicit information availability requirements need to be considered to include in medical education standards, and further studies are warranted to explore which information elements should be made publicly available. |
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spelling | pubmed-91583992022-06-02 Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China Li, Shaowen Su, Kun Li, Peiwen Sun, Yifei Pan, Ying Wang, Weimin Cui, Huixian BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: Medical education accreditation in China has been conducted by the Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education (WCAME) and 129 medical schools have completed accreditation by December 2021. Despite studies on the standards, process and effectiveness of accreditation, the actual information transparency of accredited medical schools in China has not been examined. The study investigated the status of publicly available information from WCAME-accredited medical schools in China, and whether public availability of information had significant differences among different types of universities. METHODS: The 129 medical schools’ official websites were reviewed for the 21 criteria of the WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement: Basic Medical Education. Dichotomous method was used to record information as presence or absence. SPSS was utilized for descriptive and ANOVA analyses. RESULTS: The mean of the publicly available information on the 21 criteria was 13.77 ± 3.57, and only 5 (3.9%) accredited medical schools had all relevant information available. Publicly available information on Governance (100%) and Administration (100%) was the most, whereas information on Assessment in support of learning (16.3%) was the least. Public availability of information differed significantly among schools accredited with higher (18.15 ± 2.16), medium (13.69 ± 3.41) and lower results (12.79 ± 3.19) (F = 14.71, p < 0.05). Medical universities and comprehensive universities did not show significant differences in their overall information availability (F = 0.25, p > 0.05). Central government funded universities had a remarkably larger amount of publicly available information than local government funded universities (17.86 ± 1.98 vs. 12.75 ± 2.93, p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Public availability of information from the accredited medical schools in China needs to be improved to promote transparency and continuous quality improvement, especially with regard to information on curriculum, assessment and quality assurance. Explicit information availability requirements need to be considered to include in medical education standards, and further studies are warranted to explore which information elements should be made publicly available. BioMed Central 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9158399/ /pubmed/35641929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03491-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Li, Shaowen Su, Kun Li, Peiwen Sun, Yifei Pan, Ying Wang, Weimin Cui, Huixian Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China |
title | Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China |
title_full | Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China |
title_fullStr | Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China |
title_short | Public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in China |
title_sort | public availability of information from officially accredited medical schools in china |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9158399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35641929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03491-8 |
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