Global Minimum Essential Requirements (GMER) is focused on training medical students to equip them with the scientific foundation of medicine, clinical techniques, a doctor’s professional ethos, social sciences, health economics, medical information management and communication skills, etc. Based on GMER and its evaluation and through the integration of GMER’s seven requirements into the objectives of the clinical-medicine major, Shanxi Medical University is reforming medical education to carry forward high quality education in a comprehensive way. These reforms include adjustments in the content, methods and means of the teaching in order to improve teaching conditions and optimize the curriculum structure, and to enhance the quality of education. At the same time the management system is being reformed and sustainability-featured mechanisms of management and operation are being created, to make simulated hospital a base wherein GMER is fully followed. Simulated hospital for clinical teaching is built to cultivate the students’ abilities in clinical thinking and clinical education. This takes into full consideration training in professional quality, the cultivation of students’ comprehensive ability and GMER’s aim of reaching the final objective, namely, the following four transformations of the students: from essential knowledge to clinical practice, from single technique to all-round ability, from patterning thought to integrated and innovative thought and from a student of clinical medicine to a professional doctor. The objective is to fulfill the task of teaching clinical medicine in a more favorable way, promoting the reform and development of China’s medical education and keeping pace with changes in medical education elsewhere in the world.
Currenty, China still faces problems such as an aging population, the younger onset of chronic diseases, and insufficient primary medical care and preventive services in some regions. The profession of health management professionals is on the rise in China, but there are few domestic studies on how to define the connotation and boundaries of health management professionals, the current development status of the industry, and its existing deficiencies. This article aims to review the current development status and existing problems of health management professionals in China and put forward suggestions for their future development.
Objective? To investigate the dysfunction information of children suffering from Wenchuan earthquake and analyze their rehabilitation requirements. Methods A survey of rehabil itation requirements of 87 children with earthquake injuries was performed using self-made questionnaires. Results Among the 87 children investigated, 64.4% suffered from restricted joint range of motion, 95.4% had abnormal sensory (pain occupying 89.7%). Conclusion The earl ier the patients received the rehabilitation therapy, the better for them to recover functions, improve activity ability in daily life and promote participation ability.
Objective To evaluate the role that problem based learning (PBL) teaching plays in the education of doctors. Methods A total of 240 7-year students who entered the China Medical University in Shenyang in 2004 were divided into two groups: one group used PBL teaching model while the second group used a traditional teaching model. There were 120 students in each group. At the end of the teaching, a questionnaire on PBL teaching model was distributed to the both groups. We organized and classified answers to the questionnaire and conducted statistical analyses. Results Problem based learning is a model for education in which students dominate the course, question the case, look for evidence, participate in the group discussion and reach resolution. This emphasizes the process of learning and the training of student abilities, instead of the teaching of knowledge only. PBL is more effective at meeting the requirements of the global minimum essential requirements in medical education (GMER). Conclusions PBL teaching plays an important role in the training of doctors