Scientific Research Thinking Research Articles

Application of case-based discussion combined with translational medicine in clinical teaching of gastrointestinal surgery

Objective To explore the application of case-based discussion combined with translational medicine teaching method in clinical teaching of gastrointestinal surgery.Methods Totally 100 undergraduates of clinical medicine in grade 2007 and 100 undergraduates in grade 2008 from the second military medical university were divided into experimental class (50 students,25 in discussion class and 25 in comprehensive class) and control class (50 students).Method of case-based discussion was applied in discussion class; method of case-based discussion combined with translational medicine was employed in comprehensive class and traditional method was used in control class.Results Scores in experimental class were superior to those in control class ; questionnaire survey showed that 90％ students thought the new model was better than the traditional model; the interests of students in exploring clinical problem in experimental class were increased (90％ vs.50％ ) ;the sense of mission and responsibility was Strengthened (86％ vs.64％ ) ;the scientific research thinking was more active (80％ vs.48％ ) ; the individual ability and quality were enhanced (76％ vs.50％ ),the depth and width of study were markedly increased (80％ vs.52％ ),the consciousness of independent study and thinking was strengthened (88％ vs.54％ ).Comprehensive class had more obvious improvements in scientific research thinking,individual ability and quality,depth and width of study,independent study and thinking.Conclusions The new teaching model which combined translational medicine with case discussion breaks through the traditional model and adapts to the requirements of modem medicine,it can enhance the teaching effect and worth promoting in educational reform. Key words: Translational medicine; Case-based discussion; Gastrointestinal surgery; Educational reform

Practice and understanding eight-year program clinical teaching of internal medicine during early clinical contact stage

“Early clinical contact” is one of the teaching means of pre-clinical education.Internal medicine department of Tongji hospital attached to Huazhong university of science and technology has done many exploration and has gained many experiences in the stage of “Early clinical contact” of 8-year medical program.They put forward some ideas,including intensifying legal,ethics and morality sense; intensifying communication ability and clinical thinking ability cultivation; intensifying cultivation of scientific research and clinical scientific thinking consciousness ; intensifying learning of clinical medical English.They also summarize a set of effective teaching methods with characteristics. Key words: Eight-year program; Early clinical contact; Internal medicine; Clinical medical teaching

The Importance of Scientific Research and Teaching Critical Thinking in Academic Dental Institutions: Reactions to Dominick P. DePaola's “The Revitalization of U.S. Dental Education”

The Importance of Scientific Research and Teaching Critical Thinking in Academic Dental Institutions: Reactions to Dominick P. DePaola's “The Revitalization of U.S. Dental Education”

The Democratic Processes and the Formulation of Agricultural Policy

IN THESE rapidly changing times there should be a close tie between sociologists and all workers in the field of education. There are many brands of sociological theory, of educational sociology, and of educational institutions. The fact that there are wide variations in ideas in both the theoretical and applied aspects of sociology is a good sign, and it is not to be wondered at that those people who are on the action front in both educational programs and social betterment programs, are sometimes confused by conflicting theoretical positions among the sociologists, and sometimes feel that aside from economic and political science, the social sciences have little to contribute towards their problems in action, administration, and policy formation. There are several signs in these changing times which lead me to feel that all of the social sciences are now in process of integration and developing a harmony among them which will give them much closer relationships than they have had hitherto to the active programs of Government and of group action in our present-day civilization. A little more than three-quarters of a century ago Congress passed the Land Grant College Act which authorized the organization of a Land Grant College in each State. A study of the legislation and discussions in Congress regarding this Act of the Lincoln Administration clearly indicates that Congress wanted these colleges to be colleges of the common people, and to be closely related to the agricultural and industrial walks of life. A little more than 50 years ago Congress made provision for State Agricultural Experiment Stations. Last year there was celebrated the zs th anniversary of the passage of the Smith-Lever Act which brought into existence the agricultural Extension Service. The Extension Service was broadly conceived as an instrument primarily but not wholly of adult education through which, by means of the educational process, all rural people would be given the opportunity of learning the results of scientific research and scientific thinking as related to agriculture, and that out of this all would grow a rural civilization based upon scientific knowledge,-a civilization in which rural people would have a way of living which gave opportunity for individual and group realization of the best values inherent within them. * Read before the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Knoxville, Tennessee, April 5, I940, by Conrad Taeuber, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.