"Flipped classroom"-Afuture concept for student teaching in ophthalmology?

Abstract

"Flipped classroom" is adidactic teaching concept in which learning contents are prepared by self-study with arranged tools before the classroom session. The concept offers the advantage of auniform knowledge base for the students at the beginning of the course and also the advantage of agreater theoretical knowledge, which creates more opportunities for practical exercises, application and consolidation in the subsequent joint teaching units. This study describes the establishment and application of such amodel in student teaching in ophthalmology and analyzes the student's evaluation. For the winter term 2018/2019, anew teaching module was designed and established in a cooperation between the department of ophthalmology and the Institute for Education and Study Affairs (IfAS) at the medical faculty of the University of Münster. Auniform training of the lecturers as well as apreparation of the students for the restructuring took place. After the course the evaluation of the students was recorded and evaluated using astandardized online evaluation. Between the winter semester 2018/2019 and the winter semester 2019/2020, an average of 112.3 ± 4.0students were taught with the "flipped classroom" model. Of these 93.7% were able to give an assessment. In the previous semesters with the old teaching concept (summer semester 2015 to summer semester 2018), the average number of students was 115.4 ± 15.1 with an assessment rate of 93.3%. The new teaching concept achieved on average abetter assessment than the old module. With a"flipped classroom" space and flexibility can be generated for amore individual course preparation and at the same time ahigher practical part. Further studies are needed to analyze whether this also enables asustainable transfer of knowledge.