Comparative study on English immunology textbooks
10.3760/cma.j.cn116021-20191201-00458
- VernacularTitle:免疫学英文教材的比较分析
- Author:
Jingxue WANG
;
Hongmei XU
;
Minzi SONG
;
Yuzhang WU
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2021;20(4):434-437
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Immunology is a kind of important basic subject for medical education, involving theories and technologies covering many aspects of disease occurrence, diagnosis, prevention and treatment, and is also the source of new means of medical treatment in the future. Therefore, successful teaching of medical immunology is associated with high-level medical undergraduate education. An appropriate textbook is critical for curriculum construction of immunology. However, little analysis of immunology textbooks has been published. We selected several famous and popular English immunology textbooks and compared their teaching objectives, methods, and contents, concluding the features and targeting readers of each textbooks. Our research results could provide some advices for students to learn immunology theory and researchers to utilize immunology methods, and also give a glimpse of the development trend and direction of immunology.
