School of Mangement, Shanxi Medical University, 030001, TaiYuan, China.
BMC Med Educ. 2024 Apr 3;24(1):369. doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-05356-8.
Becoming a first-level discipline in China means access to more educational resources. The development of medical humanities in China has been going on for more than 40 years, and some medical schools have set up master's and doctoral programs in medical humanities. The demand for medical humanities-related knowledge in China is also growing after COVID-19. However, medical humanities is only a second-level discipline and receives limited resources to meet the needs of society. This study aims to establish a system of indicators that can assess whether the medical humanities has a first-level discipline and provide a basis for its upgrading to a first-level.
A Delphi technique was used, with the panel of expert expressing their views in a series of two questionnaires. A coefficient of variation of less than 0.2 indicates expert agreement.
A total of 25 experts participated in this Delphi study. Consensus was reached on 11 first-grade indices and 48 s-grade indices. The authoritative coefficient(Cr) of the experts was 0.804, which indicates that the experts have a high level of reliability.
This study provides a reliable foundation for the evaluation of medical humanities maturity.
在中国成为一级学科意味着可以获得更多的教育资源。中国的医学人文学科已经发展了 40 多年，一些医学院校已经开设了医学人文学科的硕士和博士课程。在 COVID-19 之后，中国对医学人文相关知识的需求也在增长。然而，医学人文学科目前只是一个二级学科，只能获得有限的资源来满足社会的需求。本研究旨在建立一个能够评估医学人文学科是否具备一级学科的指标体系，为其升级为一级学科提供依据。
采用德尔菲技术，专家组通过两轮问卷表达意见。变异系数小于 0.2 表示专家意见一致。
共有 25 名专家参加了这项德尔菲研究。在 11 个一级指标和 48 个二级指标上达成了共识。专家的权威系数（Cr）为 0.804，表明专家具有较高的可靠性。
本研究为评估医学人文学科的成熟度提供了可靠的基础。
