Perceptions of graduating students from eight medical schools in Vietnam on acquisition of key skills identified by teachers

Table 3 Proportion of students reporting they reached the required level of each skill according to discipline and school

	Discipline	No. of skills	Average proportion of students reporting having achieved the level set in the KAS book according to school
			A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	$\bar{X}$
1.	Pediatrics	14	87	85	89	87	95	93	90	87	89
2.	Internal Medicine	7	84	86	81	80	96	95	98	81	88
3.	Basic	12	81	86	87	84	91	86	92	90	87
4.	Surgery	18	82	86	83	81	86	90	90	79	85
5.	Dermatology	2	73	79	78	86	96	91	69	77	81
6.	ENT	11	78	76	73	80	95	88	74	67	79
7.	Nutrition & food safety	2	78	74	62	80	97	75	80	73	77
8.	Infectious diseases	1	73	60	84	72	94	88	65	78	77
9.	Obstetrics/Gynecology	10	57	91	73	81	85	86	83	54	76
10.	Tuberculosis	3	72	78	67	76	88	80	65	70	75
11.	Parasitology	2	72	28	61	61	85	76	47	86	65
12.	Epidemiology	7	62	57	69	60	55	62	50	55	63
13.	Odontostomatology	3	63	37	49	74	82	78	71	53	63
14.	Traditional medicine	5	66	60	74	66	51	73	33	71	62
15.	Psychiatry	5	61	51	50	64	73	70	50	57	60
16.	Ophthalmology	6	46	56	40	64	74	63	59	37	55
17.	Health education	6	55	52	37	63	73	48	36	57	53
18.	Environmental Health	5	45	27	38	54	86	50	30	49	47
19.	Health Management	10	38	43	29	41	67	44	28	41	41
	$\bar{X}$		69	70	68	73	85	78	69	68	72

* Note: The third column shows number of skills in each discipline selected for this study, while the last column and last row shows the weighted mean of the proportion of students reporting that they had achieved the required level of skills set by teachers in KAS book, listed according to discipline.

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