Effect of chronic disease management-based education on clinical teaching and training in cardio-vascular medicine / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives Aiming at the current health management mode of chronic disease preven-tion and control as the focus of work, this paper was to evaluate the effect of chronic disease management-based education on clinical teaching and training in cardiovascular medicine. Methods Totally 54 students participating in internship training in Department of Cardiology, the Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital be-tween July 2013 and Aug 2014 were enrolled. Twenty-eight students were taught by chronic disease man-agement-based method while twenty-six students were taught by traditional method. After the internship training in cardiology, final examination (theoretical exam, skill appraisal and case analysis) were compared between the two groups to assess the teaching efficacy. Questionnaire survey was employed to investigate student satisfaction with chronic disease management-based teaching method. Data were analyzed by SPSS 13.0 software. Quantitative data or enumeration data between two groups were compared by t-test or chi-square test respectively. Results There was no significant difference in the theoretical exam score between two groups (P=0.422). However, the scores of skill appraisal and case analysis in students taught by chronic disease management-based method were significantly higher than those in students taught by traditional method (P<0.05). Most students taught by chronic disease management-based method were satisfied with the novel teaching method. Conclusion In the course of clinical medicine education, the emphasis on the management of chronic diseases can not only significantly improve the quality of clinical teaching in car-diovascular medicine, but also lay the foundation for the implementation of the concept of chronic disease management.