RESUMEN
To improve the quality of the pediatric education in clinical clerkship and to bring us more in line with international practice,we applied the PBL bedside teaching in the clini-cal clerkship of the pediatric education.Compared with the traditional bedside teaching,better re-sults could be obtained with improvement in the consciousness of study,communication skill,the combination of basic and clinical knowledge,and the establishment of the clinical thought and evi-dence-based thought.
RESUMEN
The regional office for Western Pacific Region, covering 14 countries, has felt the need to investigate and discuss present methods of pediatric teaching and to find out ways of improving pediatric education to meet the needs of these countries. As a WHO release states (WHO-WPI Jan. 67): "The plight of children in a developing countries is still a grim picture ! Disease and death among infants and children in the tropics are still very high, due to the combination of malnutrition, bad hygienve and faulty environment which create a favorable ground for infections and parasitic diseases. Ignorance, poverty and certain harmful traditional practices are also to blame. (Author)