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Objective To investigate the feasibility of student standardized patient (SSP) in practice. Methods Undergraduates majoring in TCM clinic in grade 2011 in Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine were set as subjects and were under the cultivation of new SSP teaching model and traditional teaching model respectively. Objective theory paper examination, clinical skill score and student subjective evaluation were used for the research on teaching efficacy. Results Students in the experimental group were better than their peers in the control group in the aspects of objective theory paper examination and clinical skill score (P<0.05), with good student feedback. Conclusion SSP combining simulated wards in teaching of TCM surgery can provide great help for the transformation of clinical students to clinical doctor, which should be a new teaching model in TCM surgery with further digging and promotion.
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnostic methods contain inspection, auscultation-olfaction, inter-rogation and palpation. The clinical doctor collects information through the four diagnostic methods. Various symp-toms of the disease are especially used as the main evidence to determine different diseases and to identify the syndrome. Therefore, the TCM four diagnostic methods are the basic means of disease understanding in TCM. This article collected and analyzed clinical data in order to summarize the unique features and focused aspects of TCM four diagnostic methods application on TCM surgery and dermatology. This article was aimed to provide new ideas for TCM four diagnostic methods in the clinical diagnosis of dermatological diseases.