Study on the evaluation and assessment system for the construction of medical selection system of Air Force flying cadets

Objective To establish the evaluation and assessment system for the construction of medical selection system of Air Force flying cadets and to provide references for improving the theory of Air Force cadets selection system and the work efficiency of medical service organization. Methods The assessment essential indexes were screened and defined by literature review, on site investigation and systemic analysis, and the evaluation index system framework was built then. With the principle of compromising the composition of the specialists and their familiarity with medical selection of military flying cadets, 22 specialists, including 19 senior professionals and 3 official staffs, were selected to complete questionnaire and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Three rounds of questionnaire investigation were carried out in accordance with the rule of Delphi consultation and each round lasted for 25 to 35 d. The framework of index system of medical selection system of Air Force flying cadets was revised upon specialists' feedback and scores and the evaluation and assessment system and weight of index at each level of the system were determined. Results ①One hundred and thirty-nine questionnaires were issued. The recovery rate was 90.65% and the available rate was 89.68%. Since middle and late 1980s, China's medical selection system of military flying cadets has developed rapidly, but such inefficiencies as low management efficiency, imperfect system, unreasonable specialist team composition and outdated equipment were still there. ②The recovery rate of 3 rounds questionnaire was 90.9%, 95.0% and 94.7% respectively and the harmonious coefficient was 0.543, 0.706 and 0.799. The specialists' feedbacks showed unisonous reliability (χ2=39.08, 50.82, 57.53, P<0.01). ③The determined construction of medical selection system of Air Force flying cadets included 5 primary indexes, 13 secondary indexes and 35 third class indexes. The primary indexes were the organization construction, system construction, team construction, equipment construction and business construction correspondingly with the weight of 0.162, 0.172, 0.400, 0.184 and 0.082. The final weight of index passed the coincidence test (CR<0.1). Conclusions This study builds an index system to evaluate the construction of medical selection system of Air Force flying cadets. The result of this study can provide the theoretical support and reference to the evaluation of the construction of medical selection system of Air Force flying cadets. Key words: Personnel selection; Organizations; Evaluation studies; Military personnel; Flying cadets