Competency-oriented teaching of TCM clinical classic thinking / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Cultivation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) classic clinical thinking and its application are essential for the improvement of clinical competency of TCM students. At present, it has a low proportion of students who can skillfully use classic theories and prescriptions. Therefore, the formation of TCM classics teaching model and method which can effectively improve the ability of TCM classic thinking and practical application has become a strong help to improve students' competency. On the basis of clearly transforming the application of TCM classic clinical thinking into teaching goal, the reform of TCM classic teaching increases the guidance of skill knowledge and values by adjusting the proportion of teaching content and developing "classic morning reading", enhance the guidance of skills and values and consolidate the mastery of memorial knowledge, and adopts progressive three-stage classic teaching method with "bisection classroom" as the core at the same time. The results show that students' ability of memorizing and applying TCM classics has been obviously improved, and their clinical competency has been improved to a certain extent, achieving satisfactory results.