EVALUATION RESULT OF TRYOUT

OF MEDICAL DOCTOR COMPETENCY

EXAMINATION

(Wiwik Kusumawati, MEU Faculty of

Medicine UMY)
• Tryout of medical doctor competency examination named as UKDI which was
conducted on May 16th 2007 needs to be evaluated in order to give suggestion for
improving the actual implementation of the first time competency examination on June
20th 2007. This competency exam has a consequence for those who fail i.e. they will
not get certificate of competency which is useful for obtaining medical doctor registration
certificate and medical practice licensure.
• This study was conducted by distributing questionnaires about item content and
technical aspect of UKDI using 5-item Lickert scale to 45 respondents participated in the
tryout UKDI who originated from faculty of Medicine UMY. Thirty five out of 45
questionnaires were returned. The result revealed that 60% respondents did not know
about 7 core competencies of medical doctor, 54% stated that the items already
represented the medical doctor competencies, 62% agreed that the questions suitable
with the cases that will be faced by practicing physician in the future; however 57%
respondent stated that almost all of the questions were specialist cases and 54% had
difficulty to answer the questions. Regarding to the technical aspect, 51% respondents
stated that the number and the type of questions adequately assessed medical doctor
competencies; however, 77% stated that the ample time was not given for doing the
question; 71% said that the exam venue should be at the medical faculty of origin; 82%
stated that the fee of the tryout exam was expensive and 68% stated that exercise of
competency exam conducted in our faculty was beneficial for doing the competency the
exam.
• Based on the evaluation results, the following suggestion are given: 1)information
dissemination on core competence of medical doctor and its implementation in medical
curriculum needs to be conducted; 2)Item review of the UKDI questions needs to be
conducted to be more suitable to the core competence of medical doctor;
3)Consideration of the given time length for answering the questions should be
matched with the type and the number of the exam questions; and lastly, 4)The exercise
of competence exam conducted in our medical faculty should be continuously organized
because it is beneficial for doing the actual exam.
• Key word : medical doctor competence examination (UKDI), tryout, medical doctor
competence
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COMPETENCE EXAMINATION
AND STUDENT ACADEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT : ANY
CORRELATION?

(Wiwik Kusumawati, MEU Faculty of

Medicine UMY)
• The objective of medical doctor competency examination named as UKDI is to
assess the competency of medical doctor graduates in knowledge domain
based on the 7 core competencies of medical doctor established by Director
General of Higher Education (DGHE). The aim of this study was to identify
whether there was a correlation between the result scores of the tryout of
medical doctor competence examination and the graduates’ academic
achievement assessed from their grade point average (GPA).
• The scores of 55 participants of the tryout UKDI conducted on May 2006
who were originated from faculty of medicine UMY were analyzed whether there
was any correlation with their GPA. The study results revealed that there was a
moderate correlation between scores of tryout exam with medical doctor
graduates’ GPA (r 0,59); a moderate correlation between the tryout exam
scores with the graduates’ GPA during clerkship (r 0,45) and a strong
correlation between the tryout exam scores with the graduates’ GPA during
under graduate medical education (r 0,62). of graduates. These result indicated
the medical students’ academic achievement had a correlation with the scores
of the tryout of medical doctor competence examination. Therefore, the
implementation of competence-based curriculum should be more optimized on
the process as well as on the assessment.
• We suggest that medical doctor competency examination should assess
knowledge, skills and attitude domain comprehensively. In the implementation
of the competence- based curriculum, evaluation of competency achievement
tends to be formative assessment.

• Key word : medical doctor competence examination, tryout, correlation, grade

point average