Objective To explore the practice and preliminary effects of integrated neurology curriculum for medical students before internship. Methods The following 3 aspects were integrated together: teaching content
teaching faculty and teaching methods. Teaching contents are comprised of basic medical theories and extension of clinical knowledge; teaching faculty includes teachers that teach basic theories and many other clinical disciplines; teaching methods were composed of classroom teaching
case discussion and clinical internship. It is a 56-hour curriculum
with 40 hours for studying theories and 16 for clinical internship. 82 students in total had attended the course. Independent sample t-test was used to compare the scores of students in the same grade but had different course structures
and chi-square test was performed with SPSS 22.0 to compare the results of the satisfaction degree from questionnaires. Results The average score of students was (84.7±9.3) for the courses of 2017-2018 academic year
significantly higher than that of the students who were in the same grade in previous three years. The results of satisfaction degree by the questionnaires showed that 38.6% of the students considered the integrated course to be very helpful in general
47.7% of the students thought the case analysis part during class was helpful
and 31.8% of the students thought clinical internship was of great help to their medical study. Conclusion The neurology curriculum based on integrated textbooks has achieved preliminary achievements in preclinical teaching practice
and the teaching group of the curriculum will continue to track the performance of medical students after entering neurology clinical internship
while further improving the quality of integrated courses in terms of teaching and assessment.
关键词
神经病学 整合课程 教学实践
Keywords
Neurology Integrated curriculum Education practice