title: [Analysis of scores and papers for the practical skills of traditional Chinese medical qualification examination of the year 2009 in Shanghai area].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the degree of local medical students' clinical practice skills, evaluate teaching achievements and reveal weaknesses by analyzing the test papers and grades, so as to provide scientific advices for reform in clinical education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Test papers of 721 copies of traditional Chinese medical qualification examination (practical skills examination) were collected from the examination district of Shanghai in 2009. The papers were analyzed by using the principle and method of teaching statistics. The difficulty and reliability coefficients, discrimination and scores were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The reliability coefficient of the paper was 0.527, the difficulty coefficients of different parts differed from 0.582 to 0.828 and the discrimination ranged from 0.401 to 0.753. The average score was 75.519 with the standard deviation of 11.073. The examinees had high scores in Chinese medicine training, including acupoint location and methods of acupuncture and moxibustion, but low scores in practice and display of Western medicine.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The reliability coefficient, discrimination and the difficulty are all preferable. The students got a satisfying average while they had a shortage of ability in practice and display of Western medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200071, China.
authors.forename: Jia-Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xia-Hao
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Situ
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yao-Dong
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D004521:Educational Measurement; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010820:Physicians