Application of diversified teaching in the clinical teaching of Endocrinology Department for Eight-year Medical Program students

Abstract

Objective To explore the influence of different teaching strategies on the clinical teaching effect of Eight-year Medical Program students in Endocrinology Department. Methods This study conducted an online questionnaire for evaluation of the teaching quality of training for attending doctors, residents and the effect of small lectures of medical students. Participants were students from 6th-8th grades of Eight-year Program of clinical medicine in Peking Union Medical Colleges Hospital, rotating in the Department of Endocrinology from December 2021 to April 2022. Results Questionnaires were distributed to 48 medical students who had completed the rotation of Endocrinology Department. A total of 40 valid questionnaires were recovered with a recovery rate of 83.3%. The attending doctors and residents in the ward performed well in the daily teaching activities. The busy clinical work was a main factor affecting the teaching quality. Most medical students prepared lectures within 6 hours. In addition to mastering relevant knowledge, lectures also improved the speech ability, literature retrieval ability and slide production ability of students. Conclusions Adopting diverse teaching strategies and organizing various forms of traning activity are conducive to arouse the learning enthusiasm of medical students and comprehensively improve their post competencies.

Keywords

• department of endocrinology|diversified teaching strategies|eight-year medical program|teaching quality|questionnaire assessment