Abstract
Objective: To construct a WeChat supported PBL teaching mode, apply it in the lecturing on Basic Chemistry forHigher Medical Education, and explore its teaching effect. Methods: We selected the international students enrolled in 2014 and 2015 as teaching objects, who were divided at random into the control group and experimental group, with the students in experimental group taught in the WeChat supported PBL teaching mode, and those in control group in the traditional mode. Upon the completion of teaching, the students’ learning experience in the new teaching mode was investigated, and their final results in Basic Chemistry for HigherMedical Education were compared. Results: The students in experimental group were satisfied with their learning experience in the new teaching mode and learning effect therefrom; their final scores of Basic Chemistry forHigher Medical Education were also higher than those of the students in the control group. Conclusion: WeChat supported PBL teaching mode, with its emphasis on the in-depth integration between information technology and curriculum, helps improve students’ interest and initiatives in independent learning, promote timely communication between teachers and students, and improve the comprehensive ability of international students, which is worthy of optimization and promotion in teaching.
Highlights
At present, since the number of international medical students in China ranks No 2 among the international students of different specialties, the teaching for them has become an important part of education in the medical colleges
WeChat supported Problem-based learning (PBL) teaching mode, with its emphasis on the in-depth integration between information technology and curriculum, helps improve students’ interest and initiatives in independent learning, promote timely communication between teachers and students, and improve the comprehensive ability of international students, which is worthy of optimization and promotion in teaching
We prepared cases closely correlated with basic chemistry for higher medical education before the class, and forwarded such cases via WeChat, so that students could analyze them after class
Summary
Since the number of international medical students in China ranks No 2 among the international students of different specialties, the teaching for them has become an important part of education in the medical colleges. Most of the international medical students in Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities come from such countries and regions as Pakistan, whose learning modes and thinking patterns greatly differ from those of domestic students. Basic chemistry for higher medical education, as an important elementary course in clinical medicine, focuses both on the classic theoretical system in chemistry and on the construction of scientific thinking while the medical education for international students. Basic chemistry for higher medical education is featured with its complicated and massive contents, lack of logics, extensive interdisciplines, dull learning process, confusing knowledge points and difficulty in remembering and teaching (Guo, Cui, Dong, & Li, 2020). Its introduction of students into cases of problems, teacher-student/ student-student communication, dialogue, study, discussion and other methods stimulates students’ interest in learning, cultivates their ability to analyze and solve problems, and improves their creative ability (Tang & Zhang, 2019)
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