Developing National Medical Competency Examination:
Toward better
Health Professional Education
Tri Hanggono Achmad
Faculty of Medicine
Universitas Padjadjaran
Principles of Assessment
Assessment is (one of)
the MOST IMPORTANT part
of Education
Purposes of Assessment
• To assist learning
• To measure learning competence
• To direct the learning
• To place a value on learning
• To predict competent practitioner
• To establish standards
• To provide motivation
• To develop self assessment
EXTERNAL
INTERNAL
Why national competence examination?
Health Professional Competency
• International Standard for Medical Education
(WFME)
• Free trade: MRA (Mutually Recognition Arrangement ) ASEAN (2015)
• Recognition
• Network & collaboration
Internal
Standardization of output &
competency of HP Holistic health
services
Regulation in medical practice, health,
education
Implementation of Competence
based curriculum
Competency test
Principle of Student Assessment - Validity
- Reliability - Feasibility
- Educational impact for student
& institution
Assessment
Number Distribution Quality of education
Faculty of Medicine
Set up standard Drives learning Drive process Provide feedback
Milestones of UKDI Development
Awareness & potency as an impact of medical education quality improvement (QUE) &
IDEAL
Legal act (UU Sisdiknas & UUPK)
Getting national committment (various stakeholders)
Mapping potency &
capacity building
Try out
Implementation
Better ME
Sharing to other health
professions
Distribution of Medical school
in Indonesia
Good Practices of UKDI
Input
Process
Output
1. Blueprinting
2. Item development 3. Examination
method 4. Examination
schedule 5. Registration 6. Financial
7. Human resources
1. Item Review 2. Item bank
administration 3. Try-out item
4. Exam management 5. Exam guidelines
1. Standard setting 2. Result
announcement 3. Educational
feedback
IT INTEGRATED STUDENT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Assessment of clinical competence
Knows
Knows how
Shows how UKDI=OSCEs EMQs, SEQs Mini CEX
UKDI=MCQs Behaviour~
attitude/skills
Cognition~
knowledge
Does
Miller GE. The assessment of clinical skills/competence/performance. Academic
Medicine (Supplement) 1990; 65: S63-S7.
Examination method
• 200 Multiple choice questions (MCQ) w/ key feature
Knowledge based
• Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) with 12 stations @15’
Performance based
NCE as integral part of assessment
system
Parameter 1: SKDI Parameter 2 Parameter 3 Parameter 4 Parameter 5 Parameter 6 Parameter 7 Basic Medical Skill Cognitive Recall Reproductive Growth,
development and degenerative problems
Health promotion and prevention
Individual
Application of
biomedical, behaviour, clinic, epidemiology and family medicine science
Procedural skill
Reasoning Head and Neck Genetic and congenital anomalies
Diagnosis Family
Effective
communication
Attitude Neurology and
behaviour
Infection and immunology problems
Management Community
Management of
primary health problem
Dermatomusculo skeletal
Neoplasm problems
Rehabilitation
Management of information
Hemato- immunology
Trauma or accident problems
Ethics & law
Professionalism, ethics and medical practice
Cardiovascular
Personal development Gatrointestinal,
hepatobilier, and pancreas
Respiratory Urogenital Endocrine and Metabolism
Blue Print of
UKDI
NATIONAL ITEM BANK MANAGEMENT
Item Writer Local Item
Bank Adm. Regional Item
Bank Adm. Regional Item Review
ITEM BANK - 1 National Item
Bank Adm.
PANEL EXPERT REVIEW ITEM BANK
– 2
TRY OUT ITEM BANK
– 3 Selection
Process
National Competence Examination
ITEM BANK – 4
(-)
(-)
(-)
(-)
Year Participants Institutions Accepted item
2008 89 79 3423
2009 133 95 3710
2010 48 48 3508
2011 191 204 2653
2012 87* 90* 4234*
Item Development and Review Workshop
*Started in July 2012, conducted Regionally
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Reviewer 1 Reviewer 2 Reviewer 3 Reviewer 4
Number of Reviewer
Item Development and Review Workshop
Testing Time vs Reliability
Regional CBT Center
Ʃ WSHPEQ
Ʃ WS
Self Funding
Total WS
Ʃ WS
AIPKI Per
Regional
1
UNSYIAH 41 54 95
562
USU 41 47 88
Methodist Ind 0 60 60
UNAND 41 13 54
UNBRAH 0 100 100
UNSRI 41 115 156
2
UI 41 60 101
524
YARSI 41 143 184
USAKTI 0 60 60
UNTAR 41 17 58
UKRIDA 0 86 86
UAJ 0 70 70
UKI 0 60 60
3
UNILA 21 20 41
UNPAD 41 119 160
517
UNJANI 0 100 100
UKM 41 175 216
4
UNDIP 41 34 75
509
UGM 41 124 165
UNISSULA 0 108 108
UMY 0 54 54
UNMUL 0 25 25
UNLAM 41 50 91
5
UNAIR 41 61 102
754
UB 41 80 121
UNUD 41 78 119
UHT 0 70 70
UNRAM 41 25 66
UMM 0 90 90
UWKS 41 109 150
6
UNHAS 41 58 99
UNSRAT 41 24 65
267
UNTAD 21 0 21
UNCEN 21 60 81