The application of standardized patients in the clinical practice teaching of occupation therapy / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the applications of standardized patients teaching method in clin-ical practice teaching effect for students majoring in rehabilitation therapy in the course of occupation therapy. Methods The 2013 classes of rehabilitation therapy specialty in our college were selected as the subjects of study in the two groups. Group 1 was taught by the traditional teaching method, while group 2 was taught by the standardized patients (SP) teaching method. After learning, we made an analysis of two groups through the form of theory questions, practical operation and the questionnaire to assess the teaching efficacy. Measurement data using two sample mean t-test after SPSS 13.0 software for statistical analysis. Results The scores of skills test and questionnaire in students taught by SP teaching method is signifi-cantly higher than those in students taught by traditional teaching method (P<0.05). In the theoretical exami-nation, the SP teaching group outperformed the traditional teaching group, but the difference was not statis-tically significant. Conclusion In occupation therapy application, SP teaching is superior to traditional teaching in improving students' ability of analysis and judgment, operation skill and communication level, which can be extended to other clinical courses of rehabilitation therapy.