The thought in construction of teaching model in therapeutics of acupuncture and moxibustion training course based on TSP / 国际中医中药杂志

According to the present situation and the current issues in the training of The Therapeutics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Course, Teachers Standardized Patient(TSP) is suggested to be using in the training and the course assessments, to set up a high-quality TSP team and build up a practical teaching platform; combining the advantages from multiple teaching methods a carefully designed script, standardized training course, objective assessments as well as PBL and CBL, to improve the quality of practice teaching. Putting TSP in the classroom is the demand of the reformation of The Therapeutics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Course, and it is also a vital approach and shortcut that leading to improve the teaching quality and to effectively create a clinical thought for medical students, especially in the shortage of medical resources nowadays.

Discussion on standardized training of resident physicians of acupuncture and tuina graduate students / 国际中医中药杂志

The standardized training of resident physicians of Chinese medicine specialized graduate students (standardized training) is a great reform of clinical postgraduate education and a major initiative to improve professional degree graduates education. It contributes to higher professional qualities of clinicians in China. At this stage, the standardized training in our school just started and some problems existed such as department arrangement, training and checking system, curriculum and tutors instruction. Here, taking the standardized training in our school as an example, this paper discussed some issues on the training and put forward suggestion. This will help standardize our training, improve the training quality of our graduate students and develope medical professional talents.

Experiment on Applying OBL to the Study of Meridians and Acupoints in Overseas Students / 上海针灸杂志

Ever since 1980’s, outcome-based learning (OBL) has been applied to the reform in education as a systematic method in the whole world. It’s based on the expected learning outcomes and emphasized on study from the aspect of students, and its target is to let the students transform what they have learnt into practice. Therefore, it’s widely rewarded in the undergraduate medical education. As a basic theoretical course in acupuncture-moxibustion and an essential component in traditional Chinese medicine, Meridians and Acupoints is a compulsory course for overseas students in studying traditional Chinese medicine. The authors induced OBL into the study of this course and correspondingly conducted exploratory reform in the education of evaluation, by taking practice as the expected outcome and reversely designing teaching and evaluation.