The integrated curriculum of basic medicine in Shanxi Medical University is as follows: nine basic medical courses were integrated into 10 teaching modules
additional courses including PBL and TBL case discussion
clinical observation and internship
flipped classroom
and other subjects not be integrated. The anonymous questionnaire survey from the students and the teachers of basic and clinical medicine were collected for assessment of students’ interest in and intrinsic motivation to participate in the integrated curriculum and learning results. More than 90.0% of the students were willing to participate in curriculum integration
PBL and TBL case discussion
while less than 10.0% were unwilling for thinking that knowledge of the new curriculum system was incoherent. With the increase of grade
the proportion of students who were unwilling to participate in flipped class increased from 6.7% to 95.0%. The basic and clinic medical teachers believed the students had solid foundational knowledge (81.3% and 80.0%
respectively)
their ability to discriminate and analyse was obviously enhanced (75.0% and 70.0%
respectively)
whie the practical ability of students had not been improved (50% and 70.0%
respectively). Therefore
the integrated basic medicine curriculum is beneficial to inspire learning interest and the training of students' discriminatory ability. However
in terms of the details of curriculum connection and the content choice for self-study
it needs to be supplemented by online curriculum methods to provide effective resources.