The teaching practice of propagating healthy lifestyle by combining physiology with “health cornerstones” / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Teaching healthy lifestyle in combination with physiology is hardly practiced in schools of medicine. Individual lifestyle factor accounts for 60% among the factors that lead to dis-eases. Physiology contains the basic theories for health knowledge. Therefore, during physiology teach-ing , healthy lifestyle was introduced by combining such contents of physiology as digestion and absorption , energy metabolism balance and emotional physiological reaction with four “health corner-stones” such as health diet, regular physical activity, psychological balance, quitting smoking and drinking less alcohol. This teaching mode has widened the teaching ideas, which has not only in-creased the students' interest and significance in physiology learning, but also promoted them to de-velop good healthy lifestyle.