大學院課程學生 (또는 專攻醫) 選拔方案 一精神醫學分野를 中心으로ㅡ

Selection of Graduate Students (or Residents) in Psychiatry

No study has been known yet in Korea on evaluation of the students selection system in graduate course while there have been some outspoken critics to the present system in the past several years. Comparison between on-going Korean and American systems was made, and opinions of a group of 59 board-certified leading psychiatrists (including 43 full-time faculty staffs) and 53 psychiatric residents (including 49 graduate course students) on the ideal and best suitable selection system obtained via questionaire method were assessed. On the basis of this assessment, following recommendations were finally made for the future occasions of the selection： 1) Initiatives and whole responsibilities of the selection is preferred be lied in the hands of department of psychiatry instead of medical school authorities. 2) Different application time-limits set for each graduate school are desirable for the conveniences of applicants who want to apply for several places. 3) Preliminary selection on the basis of academic grades in medical school, hospital of the present internship, and recommendation lecters from deans and directors of internship is desirable. 4) Written test for evaluation of medico-psychiatric knowledges seems less important as it does not correctly reveal whole abilities of each applicant. 5) Interview by more than two faculty members for each applicant, not as oral-test style for medico-psychiatric knowledges only, but as evaluation of whole person, is strongly recommended. 6) Those above-mentioned ideas seem highlyreasonable and immediately applicable to the present psychiatric residents selection system without much difficulties, while those could cause severe turmoil in the present graduate school system unless there were some basic and radical changes in medical education system in Korea as to parallel to the international standard.