Theme
9JJ Admission to Medicine and Postgraduate Training Programmes
INSTITUTION
SONGKHLA HOSPITAL MEDDICAL EDUCATION CENTER
Background: Princess of Naradhiwas University and Songkhla Hospital Medical Center are responsible for medical education in the southern part of Thailand. Out of 24 students each year, we detect about 1-3 students who have a poor performance and social skill. So MMI (multiple mini interviews) was introduced for student selection. The correlation and accuracy of both type of interviews, MMI and conventional interview (CI) were performed.
Summary of Work: All the 42 candidate medical students who passed the MCQ knowledge exam had undergone 9 stations MMI and also CI exam. Scores of MMI and CI were grouped as excellent, favorable and unfavorable. Then the correlation and accuracy were compared.
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Summary of Results: The MMI detected 4 unfavorable students. The CI detected 3 unfavorable students. Among 4 MMI unfavorable group (4/24 : 9.5%) , 2 were also found unfavorable in CI (2/45:4.7%) , 1 was found favorable in CI ( 1/42 : 2.35) but 1 was found excellent in CI ( 1/42 : 2.35). None of the unfavorable MMI had the excellent score in CI. The excellent and favourable MMI scores have a good correlation with the CI score.
Discussion and Conclusions: MMI and CI show a correlation in detecting good and poor performing students. MMI seems to be more effective in distinguishing among the poor performing students than CI.
Take-home messages: The MMI is a better way to detect the proper future medical student than CI. Even though it is time-consuming, complex and needs more medical staff, it is worth performing.
Acknowledgement: Best regard to Dr.Preecha Wongsilaruk director of Songkhla Hospital . Dr. Ouichai Pleangprasit Dean of Medical department Princess of Naradhiwas University and all medical doctor in Medical education center Songkhla Hospital.
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