Measuring Satisfaction with Deployment in the Final Year of Undergraduate Medical Study (Ma-FEZ-PJ) to Ensure the Quality of Training in the Final Year - Psychometrics of a Self-Evaluation Questionnaire

Abstract

One way to recruit junior physicians in surgery is to optimise the final year. Starting points for this can be gained through a standardised evaluation of the deployments in the final year. In this study, a questionnaire for the evaluation of the training conditions and satisfaction with the deployment in the final year (Ma-FEZ-PJ) underwent a test and item analysis. In addition, initial studies were carried out to analyse the construct validity of the two scales - final year training and individual attitude. A specific example will then be used to show how the Ma-FEZ-PJ can be used to optimise the final year. 555 medical students from eight final year cohorts evaluated their deployments in the final year with the Ma-FEZ-PJ. The reliability of the two scales as well as item characteristics were calculated. To validate construct validity, a global satisfaction item was used to verify the convergent validity of the final year training scale, which captures training conditions and satisfaction with the final year, and the divergent validity of the individual attitude scale. Groups of students who voluntarily or involuntarily attended the mandatory subjects in the final year were then compared to show whether the individual attitude scale can differentiate between the two. The reliability of the scale final year training is very good, that of the scale individual attitude is in the acceptable range. The construct validity can be sufficiently confirmed. The Ma-FEZ-PJ can be used as a tool to evaluate training conditions and satisfaction with the final year's deployment. Comparisons with other surgical departments, oriented at the scale level and then in detail at the item level, identify deficits in final year training and therefore approaches to optimise it.