Key Points, Pain Points and Release Points in the Teaching of Organic Chemistry for Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialties in the Ethnic Areas of Southwest China

Abstract

Organic Chemistry is an important foundational course for all majors of traditional Chinese medicine. However, due to the high threshold for the introduction of this course and the characteristics of the learning situation in the ethnic minority areas of Southwest China, the teaching effectiveness of this course in all majors of traditional Chinese medicine in our school is unsatisfactory. Therefore, the teaching team conducted research and found that the key and pain point of teaching Organic Chemistry in our school's majors of traditional Chinese medicine is how to learn more difficult content in less teaching time. The key to solving this problem lies in adopting what kind of "lively and interesting" teaching method to transmit "highlighted content" in less teaching time. Based on this, the teaching team has carried out reforms in three aspects: "humanization of teaching presentations", "case-based teaching design" and "digitalization of teaching resources" for Organic Chemistry, which have achieved significant results. However, more precise and personalized teaching methods are still the direction for the next reform.