Chinese Journal of Medical Education ›› 2023, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (1): 35-38.DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115259-20220604-00727

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Investigation and analysis of the medical students' needs for surgical teaching rounds

Ye Zixing1, Lei Shubin2, Wu Xiaoqian2, Ji Zhigang1, Xiao He1   

  1. 1Department of Urology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China;
    2Clinical Student, Eight-year Program, Enrolled in 2016, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China
  • Received:2022-06-04 Online:2023-01-01 Published:2022-12-29
  • Contact: Xiao He, Email: xiaoh@pumch.cn

Abstract: Objective To investigate the needs of medical students for surgical teaching rounds. Methods A questionnaire survey was used. In February 2022, 133 medical students of the eight-year clinical medicine major of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College enrolled from 2014 to 2016 who had participated in the surgical teaching rounds were selected as the subjects, and the questionnaire was designed to investigate their needs for surgical teaching rounds. Chi square test was used for comparison between groups. Results A total of 118 medical students participated in surgical teaching rounds as lecturers, and they believed that the main difficulties in preparing for teaching rounds were clinical professional skills [87(73.7%)] and diagnosis and treatment reasoning [59(50.0%)]. Medical students believed that ″sharing personal clinical experience and answering questions with students″ is the most important responsibility of mentor [106(79.7%)].Ranking first on the way to expect mentors to participate in class discussion is to have class discussion at the end of the teaching rounds [55(41.4%)]. Comparing students who have completed the internship (49 students) and those who were on probation or internships (84 students), the former tended to adopt the case-based learning more than the latter [31(63.3%) vs. 36(42.9%)], whereas the latter tended to adopt the lecture-based learning combined with case-based learning more than the former [48(57.1%) vs. 18(36.7%)], with a statistically significant difference (P=0.023). Conclusions The mentors should make full use of their clinical abilities and experience in guiding students to prepare the teaching rounds, and to deepen the students' understanding of diseases and improve their clinical abilities. Mentors should comprehensively apply the lecture-based and case-based learning according to students' clinical ability at different learning stages, and reasonably arrange the time for classroom discussion so that students can fully discuss, so as to improve the effect of teaching rounds.

Key words: Questionnaires, Surgical education, Teaching rounds, Clinical clerkship, Medical students

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