Study and Practice of Practical Teaching Reform of Needing and Moxibustion Methods / 上海针灸杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the influence of optimizing practical teaching of on improving the application ability and clinical thinking of acupuncture professional students.Method The students of four 2012 acupuncture and massotherapy classes in the college were randomized into experiment and control groups. In the experiment group, practical teaching reform was implemented to adopt Whole course module teaching system, establish practice teaching resource database of and construct the training teaching mode of medical records as guidance, objective and “three observations, seven practices and one comparison”. In the control group, lessons were given in sequence of “meridian and acupoints first” and “needling and moxibustion methods next” of traditional course system, and the training teaching mode of teacher demonstration-student group practice-teacher comment and the teacher-led mode of operation assessment were used. At the end of term, grades were awarded by examining based meridian drawing and acupoint location, puncturing with filiform needles and based operation. Assessment was made by the teachers and experimental group students.Result There were statistically significant differences in the grades of meridian drawing and acupoint location, based puncturing with filiform needles and based operation between the experiment and control groups (<0.01). Both the teachers and experimental group students responded that the application ability was improved to a larger extent.Conclusion The practical teaching reform of is very helpful in improving students’ comprehensive quality of skills and application abilities. standardization of based based.