Effect of social interaction model on the teaching of clinical internal medicine

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the effect of social interaction model on the internal clinical practice and to explore the teaching model which can improve the quality of medical students in clinical medical practice.Methods Totally 261 students of practiced in department of internal medicine from July 2012 to June 2013 were enrolled and were randomly divided two different teaching teams:traditional teaching group (n=130) and social interaction group (n=131).Results of theory examination,skills assessment,medical record writing test and medical humanities appraisal in two groups were compared.Questionnaire was employed to investigate the effect of social interaction model on the internal clinical practice.SPSS 17.0 software was used to do statistical analysis and measurement data was expressed x ± s.Two-sample mean was analyzed by t test andx2 test was used to compare the ratio.P＜0.05 stands for the statistically significant difference.Results There was no statistically significant difference in theory resuhs between traditional teaching group and social interaction model group(P=0.108).Results of medical record writing test and medical humanities appraisal in social interaction group were obviously higher than those of traditional teaching group(P=0.013,0.009).Number of class A medical record and qualified students in clinical skill examination was obviously increased in social interaction group than in traditional teaching group(P＜0.05).Most students held a positive attitude to the social interactive teaching model.Conclusions Social interaction teaching helps to improve the quality of clinical internal medical practice,especially the improvement of clinical practice skills and the cultivation of medical humanities knowledge of medical students. Key words: Social interaction; Clinical internal medicine; Practice teaching