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NMEC in General
Main
Responsibilities
Examination Service
Communication and
Cooperation
Contact NMEC
Law of the People's Republic of China on Medical Practitioners
NMEC in General
National
Medical Examination Center
(NMEC)
was founded in 1985
and lies on the Kunyu River in Haidian District, Beijing.
Being
an affiliated unit to Ministry of Health,
NMEC
serves as the examination organization in the health
field
and it
is one of the earliest professional
test centers
in the
whole country.
NMEC
holds approximately
40 staff
and is dedicated in ensuring people’s health with high quality
tests.
Main
Responsibilities
1.
To
administrate,
under the supervision of Ministry of Health and its Medical
Licensing Examination Council,
various
national
medical
examinations according to related laws, regulations
and rules.
2.
To
be in charge of
structure
design,
item
development, data management and science
research
for
administrated examinations.
3.
To carry
out medical qualification tests
for foreigners
applying
work
in
the
health
field.
4. To
participate
in institutional
construction,
standard establishment and policy
research of
medical
tests,
and
to
provide necessary guidance
for
provincial
medical examination
organizations.
5.
To organize
and coordinate scientific research, staff training, reference book compilation
and item bank construction for national medical tests.
6.
To organize
national and international
academic exchange and cooperation in medical examination
field.
7.
To provide
test
service
for
health authorities
of
various
levels.
8.
To provide
test service authorized by organizations
both
at home and abroad.
Examination Service
NMEC
is
responsible for National Medical Licensing Examination
(NMLE) on guideline development, item development, test
administration, scoring, standard setting, psychometric analysis and
information technology application. In 1998, China enacted her Law
on Licensed Physician and the nationwide NMLE. NMLE is divided into
a Clinical Skill test (CS) and a General Written test (GW). Only by
passing CS can candidates apply for GW. Candidates are not permitted
to practice medicine until they have passed both tests in the same
year and applied for license registration. CS usually takes place
in
July and GW in September.
Other service includes Medical Postgraduate
Entrance Examination,
Training
and
Assessment
for
Blood
Picking
and
Supplying
Staff,
National
Unified
Foreign Language Ability Test
for
Medical Doctors,
National Foreign Language
Proficiency
Test in
Health
Field (LPT),
English
Test
for Reserved
Personnel of
International
Organizations
and Basic Knowledge
Test
for
International Ophthalmology.
The
number of examinees applying for all services exceeds a million
every year.
Communication and
Cooperation
NMEC
is stay in Exchange and Cooperation with various international
organizations.
Donald Melnick, President of National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
visited NMEC twice in 2002 and 2006 with his delegation to introduce
medical education and licensing examination in the US. Three fellows
from NMEC have finished their fellowship program in NBME by July
2008. Staff from NBME visited NMEC in July 2008 and gave
presentation on item development, standard setting and test
security. They also observed NMLE Clinical Skill test in Beijing.
NMEC
delegation participated in the Association of Test Publishers 2008
annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. Several delegations have been sent
to the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea and Australia to communicate
with local medical examiners.
NMEC
will carry on her reform and opening-up policy. We her at NMEC are
dedicated to communicate with international organizations to boost
global medical examinations development. We are also ready with our
experience and endeavor to provide first class examination services.
Contact NMEC
Mr.
FENG Pan, Foreign Affairs Assistant
General Office, China National Medical Examination Center
NO.3, Huoqiying Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100097
P.
R. China
Tel:
86-10-59935025
Fax:
86-10-59935026
Email:
nmeczhc@163.com
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