Exploration and practice of integrated digestive system course for medical students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Integrated medical curriculums are becoming more and more popular in medical colleges at home and abroad. In this article, the methods and teaching of integrated digestive system course at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was thoroughly introduced from the theoretical course, PBL course, trainee course, assessment method and effect evaluation. The successful experience of practice of the integrated digestive system curriculum was summarized as follow strong guarantee from systems, adequate reserves of teaching faculty and good mechanism of feedback. Also, the problems in the practice of the curriculum were presented, which include the shortage of corresponding textbook and of deep running-in between teachers.