Study on the Academic Grades of Post-baccalaureate Chinese Medicine Students with Different Educational Background

• Main Authors: Chun-Hui Wu, 吳淳惠
• Other Authors: Lieh Der Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00078569024421722188

碩士 === 中國醫藥大學 === 中醫學系碩士班 === 99 === This study focuses on the difference in premedical course. The relationship between the prior degrees and academic grades at school is evaluated. The difference shown in this study can provide some information for improvement Chinese medicine education. This study is a retrospective study. The students who enrolled in China Medical University for post-baccalaureate Chinese medicine between 1993 to 2007 are our study subjects, and we collect their prior degrees and academic grades of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. The relationship between the prior degrees and academic grades at school is evaluated. Students are categorized into four groups: “Groups of Arts, Law, and Business”, “Group of Science and Engineering”, “Group of clinical Medicine” and "Groups of Biomedical-related science". The academic grades of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine are provided by the Office of Academic Affairs of China Medical University in the model of average grade (percentage, %). The One-way analysis of variance (one-wayANOVA) is used to compare the mean difference among these four groups. If F-value is statistically significant (p < 0.05), it will be further examined by multiple comparisons (Scheffe Test). Among 1461 study subjects, there are more male (60.92%) than female (39.08%). The post-baccalaureate Chinese medicine students enter medical schools at the average age of 27.27. Most of them were 25year-old (14.7%), followed by 26 year-old (13.2%). Among the study subjects, more than half of the students were with prior degree of "Group of clinical Medicine" (58.45%), followed by the degree of "Group of Biomedical-related science" (24.37%). There are 13.28% of students with prior degree of “Group of Science and Engineering”, and the least group is the “Group of Arts, Law and business”, accounting for 3.90%. More than one hundred students graduated from Pharmacy, Medical Technology and Rehabilitation Medicine. Students of these four groups have advantage in different subjects after receiving the class of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Overall, among these four groups students with prior degree of "Group of clinical Medicine" perform better in the statistic assessments, and the students with prior degree of “Group of Science and Engineering” performed worse. After analysis of the prior degrees, we find that the students with prior degrees of rehabilitation medicine have the best academic grades in most traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine courses.