Foltýnová V, Zitko M, Pich J
Ustav biofyziky 1. lékarské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, Praha, Czech Republic.
Sb Lek. 1997;98(4):335-8.
From 1991, the First Medical Faculty of the Charles University arranges for applicants for the medical study two-semester preparatory courses paid by the applicants. Their purpose is to improve knowledge of high-school physics, chemistry and biology with orientation to model questions published by the faculty [1, 2, 3]. Variants of 100-questions sets for the examination are generated by a computer and they are altered every year [4]. Two types of preparatory courses are available. Type A--every Monday and Tuesday between 17.00 and 18.45, physics and chemistry in odd weeks, biology and Latin in even weeks. Latin is not a discipline considered during the admission examination, however, managing of its basic knowledge facilitates not only understanding problems considered in the other disciplines, but it is particularly useful for learning the special terminology in the first year of the study of medicine. Course of type B is held once a month, on Saturdays between 8.30 and 14.00 and it is particularly designed for applicants residing beyond the capital city of Prague. In the course of 10 semesters implemented, 980 and 1,410 students passed through courses of type A and B, respectively [5, 6]. The purpose of our analysis was to evaluate the difference between results of admission procedure of applicants who participated and of those who did not participate in the preparatory course. Basic data were yielded by the Department of Students of the Deans Office. We considered the number of applicants, their results in the course of their four years of study at high schools and the number of points acquired in physical, chemical and biological tests. We furthermore obtained applications for preparatory courses in school years 1993/94 and 1994/95. The results were processed with the help of data base programs Access and Excel (Microsoft). In each of the years of interest, the applicants were divided into four groups depending on the type of the study: 1--medicine (L) and 2--stomatology (S) or depending on whether 3--they were registered in preparatory courses or 4--not. The analysis carried out resulted in the following conclusion: a--both groups of applicants (registered and not registered in preparatory courses) had comparable study results during the last four years of their high-school study; b--in the admission procedure, students, who passed through preparatory courses, achieved undoubtedly better results in comparison with those who did not pass through these course, which holds in medicine as well as stomatology; c--there was about the same improvement of knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology in both types of the preparatory courses.
自1991年起，查理大学第一医学院为申请医学专业的学生安排了由学生自费的为期两个学期的预科课程。其目的是强化高中物理、化学和生物学知识，并针对学院公布的样题进行备考[1, 2, 3]。用于考试的100道题的试卷版本由计算机生成，且每年都会更换[4]。有两种类型的预科课程可供选择。A类课程——每周一和周二的17:00至18:45上课，奇数周学习物理和化学，偶数周学习生物学和拉丁语。拉丁语并非入学考试考查的科目，然而，掌握其基础知识不仅有助于理解其他学科的问题，对于医学学习第一年的专业术语学习尤为有用。B类课程每月举办一次，在周六的8:30至14:00上课，专为居住在布拉格以外的申请者设计。在已实施的10个学期中，分别有980名和1410名学生参加了A类和B类课程[5, 6]。我们分析的目的是评估参加预科课程和未参加预科课程的申请者在录取程序中的成绩差异。基础数据由院长办公室学生事务部提供。我们统计了申请者的人数、他们高中四年的学习成绩以及在物理、化学和生物测试中获得的分数。此外，我们还获取了1993/94学年和1994/95学年的预科课程申请信息。结果借助数据库程序Access和Excel（微软）进行处理。在每一年度，申请者根据学习类型分为四组：1——医学专业（L），2——口腔医学专业（S），或者根据是否3——报名参加预科课程，4——未报名参加预科课程。分析得出以下结论：a——两组申请者（报名和未报名参加预科课程）在高中最后四年的学习成绩相当；b——在录取程序中，参加预科课程的学生相比未参加这些课程的学生取得了无疑更好的成绩，医学专业和口腔医学专业均是如此；c——两种类型的预科课程在物理、化学和生物学知识提升方面大致相同。
