Effect of personal digital assistant on teaching of operative surgery / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

As a fundamental medical course,operative surgery is featured by basic skill acquirement and plenty of practice.The teaching method for operative surgery is different compared with that for other medical course.Personal digital assistant (PDA) was adopted to facilitate the teaching of the course and this was an innovation.By taking advantage of its multiple electronic functions and various application softwares,PDA was applied to arrange class schedule,show teaching demonstration,make action analysis and give feedback and incentives of both students and teachers.In this way,PDA was proved to be an effective educational media for teaching of operative surgery.