Construction and reflection of medical curriculum of optometry & ophthalmology for undergraduates in five-year program / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Since 2016, enrollment of students for optometry & ophthalmology specialty of five-year program has expanded in China, and China Medical university has become the pioneer to recruit students to this major in Northeast China. With reference to our national situation, this paper focuses on how to help students form good professional ethics, gain professional knowledge, professional skills and scientific research ability, so as to enable them not only grasp basic theories and skills of clinical medicine, but also be skilled at optometry & ophthalmology; the construction of systematic curriculum of optometry & ophthalmology should be actively explored with the aim of comprehensive medical education as the foundation, systematic education of optometry & ophthalmology as its unique feature and education of humanistic medicine as the concept". Therefore, we innovatively put forward a teaching model of "basic-core of clinical medicine-professional direction and characteristic development courses", thus to provide a reference for training applied and compound Optometrists and ophthalmologists who are urgently in need at present in China.