No Gender Difference in Foreign Medical Students’ Hematology Clerkship

Qing Li,Xiaofan Li,Jianhui Chen,Bo Wan

doi:10.1155/2018/9069574

Abstract

Hematology is a difficult aspect of medicine for students to learn. Students need hematology clerkship training to develop their clinical skills. The influence of gender on different teaching methods and performance in foreign medical students is still unknown, especially in hematology clerkship. To address this issue, we tested performance differences between foreign male and female students in clinical practice. Twenty-two foreign medical students attended a two-week hematology clerkship in Fujian Medical University Union Hospital. The lecture-based learning (LBL) method and mixed team-based learning (MTBL) method were used in hematology clerkship. Eight foreign students were assigned to LBL group, and fourteen foreign medical students were assigned to MTBL group. Our previous work found that MTBL methods benefit both foreign medical students and Chinese postgraduates. In this study, practice scores and case-writing scores were analyzed between boys and girls. The results showed that the mean of scores in practice test scores and case writing scores was not significantly different between genders (P>0.05), as well as subgroup analysis in LBL and MTBL groups (P>0.05). This study indicated that practice test scores and case-writing scores in hematology clerkship were the same between boys and girls, which were not related to teaching methods. This study also indicated that both genders can benefit from the new MTBL teaching methods.

Highlights

Gender issues in education have been a hot topic in medical education [1,2,3,4]
We evaluated the role of gender in hematology clerkship in Fujian Medical University
To stimulate students’ interest in learning and improve their self-learning ability, hematology clerkship was required. ere are cultural differences between the African and Chinese students. us, the difficulties experienced by foreign students were evaluated before the clerkship

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Introduction

Hematology is one of the highly specialized subjects in medicine [5], which is a branch of medicine studying the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of blood diseases. It includes problems with the red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, blood vessels, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and the proteins involved in bleeding and clotting (hemostasis and thrombosis). The routine work of hematology includes both clinical practice and lab work. Some laboratory works of hematology will be discussed during internship to help the students become more familiar with this area. For the beginners who have just entered clinical clerkship, it is important to choose appropriate teaching methods, especially for their adaptation to clinical

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