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Objective To evaluate the quality and application of the Pocket Book of Bilingual Nursing Vocabulary of Fundamental Nursing Skills.Methods Anonymous questionnaire surveys were conducted among 180 nursing students (English orientation) of Nursing Department of Xiamen Medical College to investigate the application effectiveness of the Pocket Book of Bilingual Nursing Vocabulary of Fundamental Nursing Skills.The contents of questionnaire survey included:the students' views on vocabulary difficulty level,content,and layout of the textbook.A total of 180 questionnaires were distributed and 172 valid questionnaires were retrieved.Percentages were used to describe students' evaluation on the effectiveness of the textbooks.Results 89.4％ of students' good evaluation of the teaching material was mainly manifested in the following aspects:large and highly targeted vocabulary by 84.9％ (146/172),comprehensive and practical vocabulary by 89.0％ (153/172),closely linked to nursing by 81.4％ (140/172),focusing on English proficiency by 81.4％ (140/172),learning aided with phonetic symbols by 93.0％ (160/172) and easy memorizing with illustrated pictures by 94.8％ (163/172),small and potable by 95.3％ (164/172).Conclusion This teaching material is comprehensive,practical,small and portable and is an innovation of content and format with illustrated pictures,has been proved to be in bilingual nursing teaching.It also provides a positive valuable reference to teachers on the other bilingual teaching or compiling other supplementary bilingual textbooks.
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The quality of medical education should be improved so that a physician's entire personality is nurtured. To this end, applying teaching methods from overseas educational institutions at Japanese medical schools would be beneficial. A discussion class taught at the University of Iowa is designed to increase the efficiency and consistency of interactive education. Numerous techniques for teaching discussion introduced at the University of Iowa might help improve the problembased learning methods now commonly used at Japanese medical schools. Moreover, the University of Iowa's method for teaching communication skills, which emphasizes interaction between instructors and students, can provide a model for medical students to acquire essential skills. Therefore, examining the comprehensive teaching system at the University of Iowa will help medical schools fulfill their expected social mission.
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In this article, we describe the use of the home page of “Digestion” for self-learning and review by third-year students of our medical school. A home page should provide an overview of the site for easy navigation and present a briefexplanation of important or difficult terms. The page should minimize previously unseen information but should use multiple colors and animation to keep the student's attention. We propose that a nationwide collection of educational materials be established to avoid copyright problems.