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Current Status and Performance Evaluation Systems of Faculty in Korean Medical Schools (의과대학 교원 현황과 업적평가제도 특징 분석)

  • Yang, Eunbae B.;Lee, Tae Seon;Cho, Myung Ja
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2019

  • The aim of this study is to analyze the current status and performance evaluation systems of faculty in Korean medical colleges and professional graduate medical schools (called medical schools). We developed a research tool based on previous studies and distributed it to 40 medical schools from July to October 2017. The response rate was 100%. We calculated the number of faculty members and analyzed the faculty evaluation systems and awareness according to national and private medical schools. As of 2017, the number of medical faculty in Korea was 11,111 (4,973 faculty were employed by their alma mater, which is 44.76% of the total), with non-medical doctor faculty accounting for 754 of the total. The medical schools reflect research achievements as most important for re-appointment and screening to promote faculty, and the area of education is secondary excepting clinical faculty of private medical schools. However, important issues in the faculty evaluation deal with the relevance of research achievement and the need for qualitative assessment. Some medical schools revised or have been revising the faculty evaluation system in areas such as minimum standards of education for promotion and separation of promotion and tenure review. Opening non-tenure track lines for faculty show positive effects such as increasing the number of positions for hire and easing the financial burdens of medical schools. Downfalls include inconsistencies between the responsibilities and actual practices of tenure not being available and the instability of faculty's status. In conclusion, medical schools need to prepare a faculty evaluation system that fits the position of faculty members and attempt to establish a reasonable compensation system.

  • https://doi.org/10.17496/kmer.2019.21.1.41 인용 PDF KSCI HTML

Variation in Professors' Teaching Efficacy and Their Satisfaction with Faculty Development Programs (의과대학 교수의 교수효능감 및 교수개발 프로그램 만족도의 차이)

  • Jun, Soo Koung;Chun, Kyung Hee;Lee, Young Hwan;Kim, Sae Yoon;Kim, Wu Kyung;Kim, Seong Yong
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.88-93
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    • 2015

  • The purpose of this study was to examine the variation in professors' satisfaction with faculty development programs and in their teaching efficacy according to their demographic characteristics and the rate of participation in faculty development programs in a medical school. The data were collected from 59 faculty members who participated in the Professor's Seminar. The questionnaire consisted of three parts: general background of the respondent; satisfaction with the faculty development program; and teaching efficacy. The data were analyzed by methods of descriptive analysis, analysis of variance, and the Mann-Whitney U-test. The program satisfaction of faculty members was significantly different by the years of educational career but it was not different by job status, specialty, gender, and the participation level in faculty programs. The faculty members' teaching efficacy differed significantly by gender and the participation level in faculty programs, while it did not differ by educational career, job status, or specialty. The results of this study suggest that various faculty programs should be developed to increase the satisfaction level of different groups of faculty members, and that they should be more focused on teaching efficacy, as it is considered to be one of the most effective way to increase the quality of education.

  • https://doi.org/10.17496/kmer.2015.17.2.88 인용 PDF KSCI KPUBS HTML

Development of Characteristic Internship Program on Engineering Education

  • Oka, Tetsuo;Tanabe, Yuji;Abe, Kazuhisa;Narumi, Takatsune;Sato, Takashi;Tsubokawa, Norio;Kaneko, Futao
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.68-73
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    • 2014

  • A practice on learn-by-doing career education programs has been operated in Faculty of Engineering in Niigata University from 2006. The purpose of the activity is reduction of early unemployment which is due to the gaps between the situations which university students would expect in their job hunting processes and those of their practical work places after getting jobs. We developed a novel internship program to let the students notice the practical situations of engineers outside the university. A major part of the program is composed of two different kinds of internships and what we call a career design workshop. The characteristic programs are called "Market Internship" and "Technology Internship". In the activities, they are organically connected with each other. In the paper we refer to one of the unique internship programs "Technology Internship", which is characterized as a longer-term practice than usual. In the course of one-month internship practices, the students obtained deeper understandings and closer relationship to the practical work places of the companies than usual internships which last less than two weeks. The students estimated these unique experiences effective for their job hunting in near future.

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