Optimization of medical educational objectives by improving summative assessment system

Summative assessment plays a decisive role in the educational assessment system, which is a yardstick to measure the cultivating goal of higher education. The rapid progress of modern society has put forward higher standard for higher medical education. Traditional summative assessment system with single dimension that focuses on evaluating the student's learning outcome via a standardized examination cannot meet the higher requirements for undergraduate medical education. We have improved the summative assessment system by optimizing the assessment content, criteria and method, as well as teachers' assessment skills and students' evaluation. The reform greatly increases the teaching quality and learning effect in our university.