In 2002,the Core Committee of the Institute for International Medical Education(IIME)developed the concept of Global Minimum Essential Requirements in Medical Education("essentials"),in which a set of minimu...In 2002,the Core Committee of the Institute for International Medical Education(IIME)developed the concept of Global Minimum Essential Requirements in Medical Education("essentials"),in which a set of minimum outcomes have been defined for the medical students to demonstrate at graduation.To attain these requirements,the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has proposed the Outstanding Clinician Cultivation Plan in the National Outline of Medium and Long-term Program for Education Reform and Development(2010-2020).Among the proposed seven outcomes in the"essentials",the core competence includes critical thinking and research,communication skills,and information management.To this end,we have taken various measures to maximally implement the Outstanding Clinician Cultivation Plan in pathophysiology teaching.In this meeting,I would like to share with our colleagues the thoughts to reform the functional experimental courses by a substantial interdisciplinary cooperation through Physiology,Pathophysiology and Pharmacology Departments.Based on the preliminary trials,we feel that the reform can ensure the resource sharing(teachers and the laboratory equipments),and also allows us to carry out the experiments gradually from basic skill training,unifactorial and multifactorial/integrative experiments,to the explorative scientific research,which is beneficial not only for the students but also for the young teachers in cultivating their creative thinking,communication skills,and information management.We also believe that getting in touch with the clinical patients in early stage during pathophysiology teaching will nurture the students with right professional values and humanitarian feelings in addition to eliciting the interests of learning.展开更多
文摘In 2002,the Core Committee of the Institute for International Medical Education(IIME)developed the concept of Global Minimum Essential Requirements in Medical Education("essentials"),in which a set of minimum outcomes have been defined for the medical students to demonstrate at graduation.To attain these requirements,the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has proposed the Outstanding Clinician Cultivation Plan in the National Outline of Medium and Long-term Program for Education Reform and Development(2010-2020).Among the proposed seven outcomes in the"essentials",the core competence includes critical thinking and research,communication skills,and information management.To this end,we have taken various measures to maximally implement the Outstanding Clinician Cultivation Plan in pathophysiology teaching.In this meeting,I would like to share with our colleagues the thoughts to reform the functional experimental courses by a substantial interdisciplinary cooperation through Physiology,Pathophysiology and Pharmacology Departments.Based on the preliminary trials,we feel that the reform can ensure the resource sharing(teachers and the laboratory equipments),and also allows us to carry out the experiments gradually from basic skill training,unifactorial and multifactorial/integrative experiments,to the explorative scientific research,which is beneficial not only for the students but also for the young teachers in cultivating their creative thinking,communication skills,and information management.We also believe that getting in touch with the clinical patients in early stage during pathophysiology teaching will nurture the students with right professional values and humanitarian feelings in addition to eliciting the interests of learning.