1.Characteristics of medical education in Taiwan and its revelation
Qining FU ; Nan WU ; Yi DA ; Shuhan ZHOU ; Yu ZHAO ; Jun CHENG
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2013;(8):822-825
Confronted with similar problems and difficulties in mainland,Taiwan reformed its medical education. The reform included setting up flexible program,formulating objective and detailed rotary guide,making the best of the resources,implementing medical humanities education based on the reality and forming unique cultivation system and mode. These measures can be taken as references for medical education reform in mainland.
2.Kinematic Characteristics of Gait for Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy
Xuesen WANG ; Songhua YAN ; Hua ZHENG ; Xiaohu FU ; Fanrun KONG ; Qining WANG ; Kuan ZHANG
Journal of Medical Biomechanics 2018;33(5):E459-E464
Objective To analyze kinematic characteristics of children with spastic cerebral palsy during walking based on the method of gait analysis. Methods The gait of 14 children with spastic cerebral palsy and 16 healthy children, who were required to walk back and forth on level ground at normal speed, was tested using portable gait analyzer. The gait differences between diseased side and healthy side of lower limbs for children with spastic cerebral palsy, as well as the gait differences between children with spastic cerebral palsy children and healthy children were compared. Results For children with spastic cerebral palsy, single step time, swing time and toe-off time of diseased side were significantly longer than those of healthy side (P<0.05), while step frequency, velocity and terminal stance were significantly shorter than those of healthy side (P<0.05). Compared with healthy children, gait cycle time, single step time, stance time, swing time, percentage of stance phase, mid stance phase, pre-swing stage and toe-off time for diseased side of children with spastic cerebral palsy were significantly longer (P<0.05). Stride, velocity, step frequency and terminal stance of the children with spastic cerebral palsy were significantly lower than those of healthy children (P<0.05). Pulling acceleration for children with spastic cerebral palsy also decreased compared with healthy children (P=0.05). Conclusions The stability of children with spastic cerebral palsy decreased during walking, and their single step time, swing time, toe-off time and pulling acceleration might be considered as the sensitive indicators.