Design and practice of orthopedic clinical practice teaching based on WeChat platform

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the effect of orthopedic clinical practice teaching design based on WeChat platform. Methods From September 2015 to August 2017, 62 undergraduate students majoring in clinical medicine in the department of orthopedics of our hospital were selected as the study subjects, and randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group. With 31 interns in each group, the control group implemented the traditional teaching method according to the requirements of the syllabus. The experimental group was attached to WeChat production, push notification and communication of related courses on the basis of the traditional teaching methods. At the end of the teaching, the theoretical and operational tests, the comprehensive quality assessment, the evaluation for teachers' teaching work and the questionnaire survey of the two groups were administrated to evaluate the teaching effect. SAS 9.0 was used to do t-test and CMH-chi-square test. Results The score of the experimental group in the theoretical test [(87.52±5.45) vs. (82.61±7.70)], operational test [(94.36±2.60) vs. (92.26±3.01)], comprehensive quality assessment [(95.94±1.61) vs. (93.42±2.81)] and the evaluation for teachers' teaching work [(94.58±2.06) vs. (92.55±1.69)] were better than those of control group, and there were statistically significant differences. P values were 0.005, 0.005, 0.000 and 0.000 respectively. The questionnaire survey results show that the experimental group was better than the control group in learning motivation (P=0.035), literature study (P=0.013), curriculum arrangement (P=0.007), teaching satisfaction (P=0.029) and professional recognition (P=0.040). Conclusions The clinical practice teaching method based on WeChat platform is effective and feasible to the orthopedic medical students, which is helpful to improve students' learning initiative and master effective learning strategies. The application is worth promoting. Key words: WeChat platform; Clinical teaching; Orthopedics; Undergraduate