External assessment of medical education quality: indicative model development considering paradox of skill

Front Public Health. 2023 Jul 11:11:1184861. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1184861. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

This study proposes an approach to the external evaluation of medical education programs' quality based on a combination of indicators, including international rankings, external stakeholders' input, and independent agencies' assessments. We modify the success equation with a detailed consideration of the skill component and its decomposition into internal and external quality assurance elements along with authority. We carried out a bibliometric analysis regarding the problem of medical education quality assessment in the context of achieving sustainable development goals. We described the calculation model of external quality assessment indicators through the algorithms of independent education quality assurance agencies' activity and rating indicators shown in the modified Mauboussin's equation. The model considers the economic component (the consequence of achievement) of skill, which is expressed in raising funds from external sources to implement educational and scientific activities. The proposed algorithm for assessing the educational program quality can be applied to benchmark educational program components, complete educational programs within the subject area, and the educational institution for different areas. We propose a "financial" model for educational program quality based on the analysis results. The model makes it possible to determine the need for additional focused funding of the educational program based on the individual analysis of the external evaluation criteria of the achievement level. This study analyzes the accreditation results of more than 110 educational programs in 2020 and 8 months of 2021 within the direction 22 "Medicine" (according to the national classification of fields of knowledge) (state and private Ukrainian medical universities).

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; education evaluation; education funding; education quality; medical education; sustainable development goals.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Education, Medical*
  • Educational Measurement*

Grants and funding

This study was carried out under the projects Economic and mathematical modeling and forecasting, development of methodological and methodological bases for creating a roadmap for reforming the health care system in Ukraine, considering behavioral, social, economic and legal determinants (the basic funding from the Ministry of Education and Science, order from 16.04.2021, No. 434, contract Φ/24-2021) and Changes in the approach to the creation of companies' distribution management concepts influenced by the effects of social and economic crises caused by the global pandemic and increased security risks (funding from the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Science, project VEGA 1/0392/23). This research was supported by the Program Cooperatio Health Sciences (Charles University in Prague).