Objective: To understand the degree of local medical students’ clinical practice skills, evaluate teaching achievements and reveal weaknesses by analyzing the test papers and grades, so as to provide scientific advices for reform in clinical education.
Methods: Test papers of 721 copies of traditional Chinese medical qualification examination (practical skills examination) were collected from the examination district of Shanghai in 2009. The papers were analyzed by using the principle and method of teaching statistics. The difficulty and reliability coefficients, discrimination and scores were evaluated.
Results: The reliability coefficient of the paper was 0.527, the difficulty coefficients of different parts differed from 0.582 to 0.828 and the discrimination ranged from 0.401 to 0.753. The average score was 75.519 with the standard deviation of 11.073. The examinees had high scores in Chinese medicine training, including acupoint location and methods of acupuncture and moxibustion, but low scores in practice and display of Western medicine.
Conclusion: The reliability coefficient, discrimination and the difficulty are all preferable. The students got a satisfying average while they had a shortage of ability in practice and display of Western medicine.

Key words: qualification examination, traditional Chinese medicine, clinical competence