Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Informatics
Date Submitted: Oct 12, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Oct 12, 2020 - Dec 7, 2020
Date Accepted: Jan 16, 2021
Date Submitted to PubMed: Mar 16, 2021
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
Using “Xuexi Tong Platform” as the Major Approach to Explore Teaching Models of “Histology and Embryology” and “Pathology” During COVID-19
ABSTRACT
Background:
“Histology and Embryology” and “Pathology” are two important basic courses of medical morphology for studying human histological structure under healthy and pathological conditions, respectively. There is a natural succession between the two courses. Since the beginning of 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has suddenly swept the world. During this special period, to ensure that the medical students understand and master the basic medical knowledge, lay a solid foundation for the future medical bridge courses and professional courses, and so an online teaching team of medical morphology mainly including the “Histology and Embryology” and “Pathology” teachers was set up.
Objective:
This study aimed to explore a new teaching mode of “Histology and Embryology” and “Pathology” under COVID-19 circumstances, and to illustrate its feasibility and acceptability.
Methods:
From March to July 2020, our team selected Grade 2018 and 2019 clinical medicine undergraduates as objects for online teaching. Meanwhile, Grades 2019 and 2020 nursing undergraduates were selected for traditional offline teaching as the control group. For online teaching, our team used “Xuexi Tong Platform” as the major platform to realize a new “Seven-in-One” teaching method, i.e., “video + materials + chapter test + interaction + homework + live broadcast + case analysis/discussion”. This new teaching mode involved diverse online teaching methods and contents, which included: 1. flipped classroom, 2. screen-to-screen experimental teaching, 3. drawing competitions, and 4. a writing activity themed What I Know about - the COVID-19". When the teaching is about to end, then the “Questionnaire Star” is used to make investigation with regard to the feedback of teaching performance. In the meantime, the final written examination of Pathology of online teaching and traditional offline teaching were compared to test the mastery of knowledge of the students.
Results:
Using “Xuexi Tong Platform” as the major platform to carry out “Seven-in-One” teaching mode is feasible and acceptable. With regard to the teaching performance of this new online teaching mode, students demonstrated a high degree of satisfaction, and the questionnaire showed that more than 71.3% of students had a greater degree/very satisfied. There are even more high score students (90-100) in the online learning group than that in the offline learning control group(P=.019). Especially, the number of students with objective scores of over 60 in the online learning group was more than that in the offline learning control group(P=.045).
Conclusions:
This study showed that this online teaching mode was not inferior to that of traditional offline teaching mode, proving the feasibility and acceptability during the COVID-19 period. It laid a solid theoretical foundation for the follow-up study of medical students.
Citation
Request queued. Please wait while the file is being generated. It may take some time.
Copyright
© The authors. All rights reserved. This is a privileged document currently under peer-review/community review (or an accepted/rejected manuscript). Authors have provided JMIR Publications with an exclusive license to publish this preprint on it's website for review and ahead-of-print citation purposes only. While the final peer-reviewed paper may be licensed under a cc-by license on publication, at this stage authors and publisher expressively prohibit redistribution of this draft paper other than for review purposes.