Objective To assess the effectiveness of the course of “Being a Friend with Patients”. Methods There were three parts in this course: (1) To experience what the empathy was, by counseling activities; (2) To accompany patients in hospital; (3) To share the experience after accompanying. There were 118 participants who were freshmen at the end of 2005. Results and Conclusions According to feedback from the students, they understand empathy and how the patients feel after the counseling. The course is accepted by all students. It may help students to be more attentive to and concerned about their patients, and to provied help for them.
Non-directly affiliated hospitals are an important supplement to directly affiliated hospitals of medical colleges in China. Considering the problems of teaching consciousness, school running form and teachers construction in non-directly affiliated hospitals, this paper takes the medical personnel training of a non-directly affiliated hospital which is subordinate to Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group as an example, in order to analyze the related exploration methods of non-directly affiliated hospitals under the development of hospital collectivization, and put forward a trinity training mode of general practitioners, which is “medical college-non-directly affiliated hospital-community health center”. This paper further discusses the challenges and possible solutions faced by non-directly affiliated hospitals in the new era.
Modern medical education faces multiple challenges, and there is a gap between the social needs and the methods of cultivating medical talents. The current undergraduate education in clinical medicine is subject centered, and the traditional model is difficult to cultivate students’ clinical abilities, practical skills, and research thinking effectively. Therefore, West China Hospital/West China School of Medicine of Sichuan University has proposed a new education model of “Four-Early and Three-Entry”, aiming to cultivate students’ professional ethics, clinical abilities, and scientific research innovation abilities through early clinical practice, scientific research participation, and social integration. This article will introduce the practice and preliminary results of the “Four-Early and Three-Entry” model, aiming to provide effective ways to improve the quality of medical undergraduate education and cultivate more comprehensive medical professionals.
Medical simulation teaching is a bridge course from theoretical knowledge to clinical practice. At present, the medical simulation teaching is facing many problems. The iSIM is a systematic method to optimize medical simulation teaching. It aims to maximize the effect of medical simulation teaching by various teaching methods and assistant technologies. The combination of iSIM and medical simulation teaching can develop the correct clinical thinking, improve the clinical skills and strengthen the communication skills, so as to improve the medical quality in the real clinical environment. Based on experience Center of Experimental Teaching on Clinical Skills of West China Hospital , this paper introduces how to use iSIM to optimize medical simulation teaching.
Medicine bears the responsibility for human health. Technical competence, service standards, professional ethics and social accountability constitute the soul of this profession. The principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy and justice help to establish good doctor-patient relationship and regulate medical services, which has been fixed by international and domestic professional norms. Besides to ensure its truth, effectiveness and safety, medical research also should require certain rendering of subject's autonomy, minimizing risks and maintaining social justice. Some procedures have established for supporting it. Modern medical education furnishes suitable human resources for medical profession, which directly affects the accessibility and outcomes of health services. Its objectives, operations and assessments are increasingly taking shape. Faced with the current issues of healthcare equity, worsening doctor-patient relationship, scandals and ethical controversies in medical research, and the failing of medical education to fully match social needs, evidence-based medical methodology is extending to policy and social sciences for identifying and creating high-quality scientific evidence to improve the quality of decision-making.
Systems-based integrated course is a advanced and mainstream educational mode in western medical education, and also it is a hotspot of current medical education reform in China. In this article, we introduce our practice and the students' feedback of the orthopedic module of 8-year clinical medicine systems-based integrated course. During practice, we follow the integral curriculum design of Sichuan University, establish a team of teachers, integrate the curriculum of relevant disciplines, and improve teaching methods, ameliorate evaluation forms, etc. Through the implementation of this course, we recognize that this new course system aims to cultivate excellent clinical doctors, which focuses on the bilateral permeation and reconstruction among disciplines, especially between basic curriculums and clinical curriculums, changes traditional teaching methods, and strengthens the ability of practice and lifelong learning.
Medical education is undergoing the transition from traditional classroom teaching to more diversified " inside-and-outside-class collaborative teaching”, that is, extracurricular teaching has become an important supplement to medical education. The academic societies of medical students are important platforms in medical education. With the increasing of academic societies in medical colleges, the coordination and balance between community construction and student development requires deep thinking and investigation. The society should develop under the ideas of " following the initial intention - realizing transformation - promoting innovation”. The society-based extracurricular teaching should be performed in the manner of capacity-directing " translational teaching”. The society needs to carry out the " personalized and advanced” training to improve the scientific research or innovation capacity of individual medical student. This paper aims to discuss key points on the construction and management of academic society of medical students at the micro-level, to provide references for single society’s development.