Jichu yixue yu linchuang (Sep 2021)
Human anatomy combined with physical examination: a survey on the course reform
Abstract
Objective To investigate the attitude of 8-year-program clinical medical students in Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) towards current anatomy course and their perspective on introducing physical examination into anatomy course, and to raise feasible reform strategy. Methods Survey on WeChat platform through wenjuanxing(wjx) questionnaires was performed among 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th grade students in PUMC. Results 216 qualified questionnaires were collected. 207 (95.8%) and 196 (90.7%) students identified with the importance of anatomy course and agreed to introduce physical examination into anatomy course, respectively. Two major problems were considered existing in current anatomy course, the lack of feasible ways to review in later stage (149, 69.0%) and poor connection between anatomy and clinical courses leading to poor retention of the knowledge (143, 66.2%). 65 (30.1%) preferred online course and 151 (69.9%) preferred traditional offline course to offer the new course. Conclusions Most clinical medical students in different learning stage in PUMC approve to introduce physical examination into anatomy course. Related educational reform of anatomy course is necessary. The new combined course should be offered mainly in traditional offline way, combined with online content.
