Abstract: Objective To evaluate the effect of application of Seminar combined with case-based learning(CBL) teaching in clinical teaching of General medicine.Methods From September 2015 to June 2016, students who were clinical practiced in the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University were randomly divided into 60 people in experimental group, 60 people in the traditional teaching group, and 60 people in the problem-based learning (PBL) group. The experimental group was used by Seminar combined with case teaching.Results The scores of theoretical evaluation test, clinical skills assessment, etc in the experimental group were all better than those of the traditional teaching group (all P＜0.05). There was no significant difference of the scores of theoretical evaluation test between the experimental group and the PBL group (LSD-t=2.635, P＞0.05), while the rest of four scores were better than the PBL group (all P＜0.05).The degree of students' satisfaction to teaching method in experimental group was higher than the traditional teaching group. While there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the PBL group (χ²=0.702, P＞0.05).Conclusions The effect of application of Seminar teaching method combined with the case-based learning is better than the traditional teaching methods. Compared with the PBL teaching method, this new teaching method can further improve the students' achievement.

Key words: Seminar, Case-based learning, Teaching method, General medicine, Community teaching