Practice and reflection on the "organ-system-based" curriculum reform

Abstract

The organ-system-based curriculum (OSBC) medical teaching model with the organ system as the main line closely links the basic medical curriculum with the clinical practice, and breaks the boundaries between different subjects. As this novel teaching model is still in the early stage in China, Chongqing Medical University pioneered to reconstruct the teaching system for OSBC teaching reform, including the great efforts to integrate e the traditional 24 courses into 12, and to allocate talents from various basic and clinical teaching departments to form a new integrated teaching team. In 2011, this new mode was implemented in a pilot class of students. The results showed the 2011 five-year pilot class showed more satisfaction than did the traditional teaching class [(92.5±4.6)% vs. (72.5±4.9)%, P<0.05]. Besides, the test scores of the pilot class and the traditional class were (80.0±3.6) and (71.0±5.9) respectively(P<0.05), and the failing rate was (3.7% in pilot class and 9.3% in traditional class(P<0.05). Since the pilot class perform better than the traditional one, the reform of OSBC was implemented for all five-year clinical medicine program in Chongqing Medical University in 2018. Key words: Medical education; Curriculum reform; Organ-system-based curriculum; Medical curriculum system