The application of longitudinal stepped case teaching in the geriatrics education / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Case teaching method has been widely used in clinical medicine teaching.Because of the complicated diseases in elderly patients and the individual differences,it is difficult to achieve the goal of teaching only through several cases.Typical cases of different level are selected according to students' different learning stages and difficulty degree in longitudinal stepped case teaching.The students can gradually understand and master the theoretical knowledge through this method.In addition,their clinical thinking and the ability of solving practical problems can also be trained continuously.Preliminary practice shows that this teaching method is more suitable for the development of modern medical education and the needs of teaching.