Advancing the development of first-class discipline of basic medical science focused on joint efforts of discipline construction: based on Guangzhou Medical University / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Multiple factors such as traditional history evolution, resource allocation and management mechanism all restrict the discipline development of basic medical sciences and the enhancement of postgraduate education quality. Guangzhou Medical University starts from top-level design, focuses on joint efforts of discipline construction and adopts a series of reform measures to promote first-class basic medical sciences discipline construction and enhance the postgraduate education quality, such as transforming the architecture of scientific institutions, grasping the discipline direction, setting double-tutor system, optimizing the tutor team, promoting curriculum reform, strengthening communication between domestic and overseas and selecting excellent students. Practice shows that positioning properly and developing with unique features based on joint efforts of discipline are effective approaches to build high-level teaching-research medical universities.

A research on basic medical sciences' experimental teaching system and quality monitoring for in-novative talents' cultivation / 中华医学教育探索杂志

This research is to construct a basic medical sciences’experimental teaching system in order to cultivate innovative talents. It is guided by cultivating innovative practical ability and post compe-tence and implements a teaching mode with “five combinations”by integrating teaching resources, strength-ening interdisciplinary combination , integrating curriculum and organ systems , and optimizing teaching modules and experiment content. A preliminary personnel training mode and experimental teaching system have been constructed for innovative talent cultivation, and correspondently a diversified experiment exami-nation system and teaching quality monitoring system have been constructed through teaching practice, which aims at continuously improving experiment teaching quality and talent training quality.

Graduate schools of medicine in Japan: The status and problems of researcher training / 医学教育

1) Common training for the introduction of research and the elective and individual guidance for research should be devised in a manner attractive to graduate students of medicine.<BR>2) To train researchers, a graduate school of clinical medicine should be established as a professional school, separate from an ordinary graduate school.<BR>3) To promote basic medical sciences, the capacity of graduate schools of basic medical sciences should be reduced despite the number of teachers and the bold plan for the financial support of students.

Thoughts on the Cultivation of Creative Talents of Basic Medical Science Specialty / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Aiming at the cultivation of creative talents of Basic Medical Sciences,the paper has deep discussion on making cultivating plans scientifically,optimzing the teaching contents and curriculum systems,emphasizing the training of technical skills,reforming teaching methods and identifying practices of scientific research.

Prospect of medical genetics in China from a historical point of view / 基础医学与临床

The history of Medical Genetics is briefly reviewed.It is evident that Medical Genetics with its inseparable part,clinical genetics,started out as a clinical science from the very beginning.Its robust development in the developed countries is the result of a close interaction between the basic sciences and clinical genetics service.In China,however,clinical genetics has not received due emphasis and medical genetics is still not recognized as one of the medical specialties.This is in marked contrast to the situation in the West.It is high time to acknowledge that medical genetics together with clinical genetics is a medical specialty and to promote clinical genetics service in qualified hospitals in our country.

Objectives and Contents of Basic Medical Sciences in Nursing Education / 간호학회지

The purpose of this study was to investigate the objectives and contents of basic medical sciences at department of nursing in college of nursing, and junior college of nursing, thus ultimately providing the basic data to standardize the curriculum of the basic medical sciences in nursing education. Seventy eight professors who were in charge of teaching basic medical sciences to at 22 colleges of nursing/department of nursing, and 20 junior colleges of nursing responded to the questionnaires that consisted of the questions regarding objectives and contents, of basic medical sciences. Based on the description of objectives, the description related to nursing, nurse, nursing science was cathegorized as on objective applicable to nursing science, the description related to medicine or clinical medicine as medical model, the description without description related to medicine was cathegorized as knowledge acquisition. The number of schools corresponding to each category were summerized in descending order. The objectives of basic medical sciences were categorized by concepts and number of schools corresponding to the categorized concept. The findings of the study are as follows: 1. The subjects of basic medical science identified were physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, pathology, microbiology, and pharmacology in most colleges of nursing and junior colleges. Two colleges of nursing/department of nursing (9.1%) and 19 junior colleges of nursing(95%) did not offer biochemistry, 1 college of nursing /department of nursing(5%) did not offer pathology & pharmacology. 2 junior colleges of nursing (10%) did not offer pharmacology, 1 junior college of nursing(5%) did not offer pathology. The other 1 junior college of nursing did not offer microbiology. 2. Objectives of physiology were to acquire knowledge and understanding on human function in both 6 (50%) colleges and 5 junior colleges. Objectives of anatomy were to acquire knowledge on human structure in both 4 (57%) colleges and 2 (50%) junior colleges; knowledge applicable to nursing sciences in both 3 (42.8%) colleges and 2 (50%) junior colleges. Objectives of biochemistry was to obtain knowledge and understanding on biochemistry, and understanding of basic concepts about biochemistry. Objectives of pathology were to obtain knowledge and understanding on pathology in both 4 (57.1%) colleges and 5(62.5%) junior colleges. Objectives of microbiology were to acquire knowledge and understanding on microbiology in both 5(83.8%) colleges and 6(85.7%) junior colleges. Objectives of pharmacology were to acquire knowledge on pharmacology in both 7(100%) colleges and 8(100%) junior colleges. 3. Contents of physiology in 19 (100%) schools were membrane transport, digestion, circulation, nervous system and respiration. In 16(84.2%) were kidney and muscle, that in 13(68.4%) were endocrine physiology. In 11(57.9%) were introduction and that in 9(47.4%) were structure and function of cells. Contents of anatomy in 11(100%) schools were skeletal system, muscle system, digestive system, circulatory system, concepts regarding human structure. In 10(90.9%) schools were endocrine system and nervous system, and in 5(45.5%) schools were blood, urinary system and cell. Contents of biochemistry in 6(100%) schools were history of biochemistry, body regulating factor, bioenergy, health and nutrition, nutrition of cell, energy production system. In 5(83.3%) schools were metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and enzyme, and in 3(50%) schools were metabolism of energy and fat. Contents of microbiology in 13(100%) schools were environment and influenc of bacteria, virus, G(-) rods, purulent cocci, G(+) rods. In 10 (76.9%) were immunity, diphtheria, enterobacteria, and in 9(69.2%) were spirochete, rickettsia and clamydia, and that in 6(46.2%) were sterilization and disinfection. Contents of pathology in 14(100%) schools were cell injury and adaptation, inflammation, respiratory diseases, circulatory diseases. In 10(71.4%) were neurological disorders, in 8(57.1%) were immunity and disease, and in 7 (50%) were tumor and progressive changes. Contents of pharmacology in 15(100%) were cardivascular drugs, introduction to pharmacology, hypnotics, analgesics, local anesthetics, an ticonvulsants. In 12(80%) were drugs activity on sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, and in 11(73%) were sulfa drugs, antibiotics, drug abuse and addiction.

Evaluation of the "Learning in a Laboratory" Program at the Kyushu University School of Medicine / 医学教育

We evaluated the “Learning in a Laboratory” program, which was introduced into the curriculum at the Kyushu University School of Medicine in order to motivate students in the area of basic medical sciences. Students were assigned to a laboratory and conducted scientific research on particular subjects. We found that the program improved the image held by students of the basic sciences and scientists. However, contrary to teachers' expectations, the program exerted little influence on student choice of specialty after graduation. More appropriate objectives of the program may be development of a faculty of medicine with enhanced ties to the basic sciences and an open attitude toward continuous learning. Evaluatoin of the curriculum and feedback to teachers was necessary to improve the program.