Bajammal Sohail, Zaini Rania, Abuznadah Wesam, Al-Rukban Mohammad, Aly Syed Moyn, Boker Abdulaziz, Al-Zalabani Abdulmohsen, Al-Omran Mohammad, Al-Habib Amro, Al-Sheikh Mona, Al-Sultan Mohammad, Fida Nadia, Alzahrani Khalid, Hamad Bashir, Al Shehri Mohammad, Abdulrahman Khalid Bin, Al-Damegh Saleh, Al-Nozha Mansour M, Donnon Tyrone
Medical Education Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
BMC Med Educ. 2008 Nov 25;8:53. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-8-53.
Medical education in Saudi Arabia is facing multiple challenges, including the rapid increase in the number of medical schools over a short period of time, the influx of foreign medical graduates to work in Saudi Arabia, the award of scholarships to hundreds of students to study medicine in various countries, and the absence of published national guidelines for minimal acceptable competencies of a medical graduate.
We are arguing for the need for a Saudi national medical licensing examination that consists of two parts: Part I (Written) which tests the basic science and clinical knowledge and Part II (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) which tests the clinical skills and attitudes. We propose this examination to be mandated as a licensure requirement for practicing medicine in Saudi Arabia.
The driving and hindering forces as well as the strengths and weaknesses of implementing the licensing examination are discussed in details in this debate.
沙特阿拉伯的医学教育面临多重挑战,包括短期内医学院数量迅速增加、外国医学毕业生涌入沙特阿拉伯工作、向数百名学生提供奖学金让其在各国学习医学,以及缺乏已公布的关于医学毕业生最低可接受能力的国家指南。
我们主张需要进行沙特国家医学执照考试,该考试由两部分组成:第一部分(笔试)测试基础科学和临床知识,第二部分(客观结构化临床考试)测试临床技能和态度。我们提议将此考试规定为在沙特阿拉伯行医的执照要求。
本次辩论详细讨论了实施执照考试的推动因素和阻碍因素以及优势和劣势。