Research And Practice On Optimizing And Integration Of The Curriculum Project Of The Functional Experimentation

The reform of fundamental and experimental medicine teaching is the principal content of the reform in an academy of medicine. It has become a trend to study the reform to reorganize the teaching contents of experimental courses in physiology, pathological physiology, and pharmacology and form a course called functional experimentation. Reorganization in content of functional experimentation is the nucleus and tough part in the reform of an experimental teaching. The purpose of this study is to set up and reorganize the contents of the related experimental courses reasonably and optimally, which were separated and isolated mutually, to form an executive scheme for functional experimentation. Using an expert consultant method, Delphi method, the study deduced and established a systematic and scientific executive scheme for the courses. The functional experimentation has been applied to the students at three different grades for six years. A survey was given to evaluate the teaching effect and attitude to the scheme from lecturers, students, and teaching supervisory group. According to the survey and the analysis of the experimental results by using the statistical software, SAS, which is known as powerful software internationally, it was shown that after the reorganization unnecessary overlapping courses can be eliminated to save the teaching time thus increasing the ability of students in practical operations. As a result, not only the faculty members improved their teaching skills but also the students improved their ability to perform experiments skillfully, to solve problems independently, and to apply what they learnt in related fields synthetically. It really benefits in teaching and learning mutually.