Application of flipped classroom teaching in pre-clinical practice in department of endodontics

Abstract

Flipped classroom is a new teaching model and a new direction of medical education reform. The origin, characteristics and application of flipped classroom in domestic medical education were reviewed in this paper. The problems existing in the pre-clinical practice of endodontics were also introduced. A discussion on how to construct a flipped classroom teaching model in the pre-clinical practice of endodontics was carried out. The challenges of applying this new teaching model were also discussed. Key words: Endodontics; Clinical clerkship; Models, educational; Flipped classroom