Teaching reform of ultrasound imaging on integrated medical curriculum / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Recently, the integrated medical curriculum with main line of organ system and with core of disease has played an important role in medical educational reform. During the teaching reform of ultrasonic imaging in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, there existed some main problems: simply considering the "integration" as "combination"; unreasonable arrangement of ultrasonic courses; different emphasis on teaching goals between the traditional and integrated teaching; deficient ultrasonic knowledge of clinical teachers, etc.. To solve those problems, teachers participated in the reform must take some measures: firstly, totally understand the spirit of integrated medical reform, and the goal of reform which is improving the clinical ability and quality of medical students but not the pure teaching of medical knowledge; secondly , adjust the curriculum establishment and content of ultrasonic imaging;thirdly, fully utilize the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) system to complement the problem of deficient ultrasonic knowledge of clinical teachers.