Application of formative assessment in clinical skills simulated training course

Objective To explore the application of formative assessment in clinical skills simulated training course. Method s The clinical skills simulated training course for excellent doctors in our school was selected as the research focus, students of Grade 2014 adopted traditional summative evaluation (control group), and the multi-station examination was used as evaluation method. Students of Grade 2015 adopted the formative evaluation on the basis of summative evaluation (experimental group), a diversified evaluation system was established, including inter-group evaluation by students, random evaluation by teachers, feedback of operation videos of different stages and real-time feedback of students' opinions after class. Questionnaires were conducted among students and teachers at the end of the course. Result s The scores of the experimental group were higher than those of the control group, with differences being statistically significant (P<0.05). Questionnaires showed that the proportion of "good" selected by teachers and students in the feedback of formative assessment was markedly higher than that of "just so-so" and "bad", indicating that formative assessment is conducive to increasing students' initiative for self-studying, improving students' learning effect, comprehensively and accurately evaluating students' clinical operational skills, as well as improving the teaching level of clinical practice skills. Conclusion The diversified evaluation system, which combines formative evaluation with summative evaluation, has achieved good teaching results in clinical skills simulated training course and it is worth to be widely applied. Key words: Formative assessment; Summative assessment; Clinical skills simulated training course