Attitude of Student to the Postgraduate Education in Medical Field

The attitudes of the medical graduate students to the postgraduate education were surveyed for 145 randomly sampled students who are taking courses in 3 medical graduate schools. The questionaire was composed of 10 items which were dcvidcd under three heads. namely, to improve current educational system, to improve the operational efficiency and to strengthen the supporting measures. Although the survey was not an extensive one, the responses revealed following views: 1. The motives for the advanced studies were not necessarily originated from the academic ground. 2. There are two different postgraduate courses in this country, namely the training course for the clinical specialty and the advanced academic course in the graduate school of the university, leading to the higher degrees. Many of medical graduates arc taking two courses at the same time and it results in a tremendous difficulty especially in the degree course because of their heavy duty in the clinical discipline. 3. A combined course is desirable instead of two separated courses in the postgraduate educational system. 4. That combined course will be a professional degree course which will be offered to the clinical field and it will concern with the professional competence as well as the academic capability. Part of the course well be covered by the research activities in the basic science departments or some research institutes. 5. Sometimes tbe freedom of academic activity has been restricted by the domination of the advisor's choice. 6. Pass or fail system is more desirable than any other evaluation systems for their performance. 7. There are widespread dissatisfaction for the library and research facilities and the complaint for the latter is louder than for the former