Department of Medical Education
Department of Medical Education
Jabatan Pendidikan Perubatan
PBL WEB SYSTEM
The PBL Online Assessment System is a support application system for the assessment of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) curriculum, Faculty of Medicine. This system was developed in 2006 in collaboration with the Department of Medical Education, UKM KL Campus Academic Department and Information Technology Center, UKM KL Campus. This system has started to be used in the admission session of Sem 1 students in 2008-2009. This system has won the ICT Innovation Award (Group Category) in the 5th Year Innovation Awards Ceremony 2010.
Objectives
- Introducing the PBL Online Assessment System in the implementation of the Faculty of Medicine curriculum
- Replacing manual assessment methods to a more systematic, cost -effective and efficient online web -based assessment system.
- Facilitates the process of storing, updating and retrieving assessment data. This can also help the process of improving the curriculum of the Faculty of Medicine as a whole.
- Ensure the security of each assessment data free from intrusion, tampering and theft.
- Helping medical students, lecturers and department staff to improve the quality of services, teaching and research in line with the development of PPUKM as an advanced teaching staff hospital.
Goal
The goal of this system is to optimize the use of the system for the assessment of the skills of facilitators (lecturers) in explaining each module and topic of PBL to students and then through the process of questionnaire evaluation at the end in each case of PBL.
This system has replaced the paper -based manual assessment method, namely the Student Evaluation Form, Self Evaluation Form and Facilitator Evaluation Form. For information, this system will be used by several users, namely system administrators (JPP), department heads, module heads, facilitators and medical students (Years 1 and 2). Each user has their own responsibility to enable the system to run smoothly and systematically.