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Paul Finucane1, Denise Flannery, David Keane
1Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. paul.finucane@ul.ie
Medical Education
|January 12, 2010
Summary
A new medical school
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Knowledge Acquisition Assessment
Background:
- New medical schools require robust methods to evaluate student progress.
- Established medical schools offer benchmarks for comparison.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the feasibility of using a progress test to compare knowledge acquisition rates.
- To compare student knowledge acquisition at a new medical school versus an established one.
Main Methods:
- Administered the McMaster Personal Progress Index (PPI) to two cohorts at the University of Limerick.
- Compared mean PPI scores of students at comparable stages in both institutions.
Main Results:
- The rate of knowledge acquisition is currently similar between students at both medical schools.
Conclusions:
- Inter-institutional collaboration in progress testing is feasible.
- Progress testing serves as a valuable quality assurance tool for new medical programs.
- This tool can reassure students, faculty, and accrediting bodies of program quality.
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