Teaching investigation and reform in high altitude military medical geography / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the implementation effect of the teaching of high-altitude military medical geography , and to provide guidance for the teaching reform of this curriculum . Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted on the curriculum of high-altitude military medical geography among 108 undergraduate students majoring in high-altitude medicine in 2011 class (5 years). The contents of the investigation included learning motivation, learning interest, learning outcome, curriculum contents, and practical teaching. SPSS 18.0 was used for the treatment of investigation results. Results Among the 103 students who participated in the questionnaire survey, 69 (67.0％) were interested in the curriculum itself and 77 (74.8％) were interested in the knowledge of high-altitude human geography. There was a lack of understanding of the importance of the curriculum and its impact on future work. The examination results showed that most students mastered the contents of this curriculum and the overall teaching goal was reached, with an excellent and good rate of 63.0％(68 students). Conclusion The curriculum construction should be combined with the requirements for the first job after graduation. The curriculum system should be further perfected and its contents should be optimized to give full play to its interdisciplinary characteristics. The contents of human geography can be added to stimulate students' learning enthusiasm.