500 doctors participated in this pilot plan, including active doctors, recent graduates and those in the process of joining the College, both general and specialist.
Taking the exam will be a requirement to join the College for those who complete their studies in Medicine and wish to practice the profession in the country. The first mandatory exam date is set for the month of July this year.
“This test represents a real guarantee that future doctors have basic knowledge to better care for the population,” said the Dr. Margarita Marchenapresident of the institution.
According to the College, this test consists of an evaluation of medical knowledge through the resolution of clinical cases of the consultation in seven main areas in general medicine: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Surgery, Family Medicine and Health Community, Psychiatry and Research and Medical Ethics.
Health authorities and representatives of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) were present during the application of the test.
“It is a great pleasure and honor to be collaborating with the process, design, development, implementation and subsequent analysis and qualification of the Costa Rica Medical Knowledge Exam. It is an arduous process that began three years ago determining the content and posing a question that we always ask ourselves when we start this type of process and that is what is going to be evaluated”, explained the Dr. Amilcar Alpucheleader of the project of the Department of Educational Evaluation of the Secretary of Medical Education of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM.
