Evaluation on medical statistics teaching by medical doctoral students

VernacularTitle:某高校医学博士研究生对医学统计学课程的教学评价
Author: Yanfang ZHAO ; Hong MENG ; Cheng WU ; Jian LU ; Xiaojing GUO ; Rui WANG ; Jia HE
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Doctoral students; Medical statistics; Teaching evaluation
From: Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2013;(10):981-983,984
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the evaluation of medical doctoral students on medical statistics teaching. Methods An investigation was carried out among doctoral students of 2012 using questionnaires in a medical university. A total of 272 doctoral students were investigated and 266 (97.79%)of them had learned medical statistics before enrollment. Statistical description was used to analyze enumeration data by calculating cases and percentages. Results More than 88.00% of them thought that medical statistics was helpful for their future work. More than 60.00% of them thought that the present teaching contents were appropriate and about 93.00% of them thought that examina-tion mode was appropriate. However,65.00% of them thought that the class hours were not enough and some con-tents should be explained more clearly. Conclusions Both basic statistics methods and advanced statistics methods should be given consideration to. Some frontier or hot knowledge of medi-cal statistics should be arranged and the class hours should be increased to expand the content of teaching.