Dilemmas and challenges for parasitology teachers at shortage of clinicalmedical sciences knowledge background in medical colleges and universities
10.16250/j.32.1915.2024256
- VernacularTitle:医学院校寄生虫学专业教师临床医学 背景知识短缺的困境和挑战
- Author:
Su HAN
1
;
Yang CHENG
1
;
Chao DENG
1
;
Youyi LIU
1
;
Yuhong LI
1
Author Information
1. Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Medical parasitology;
Medical college and university;
Basic-clinical medicine collaboration;
Teaching model
- From:
Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control
2026;38(1):69-73
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Medical parasitology, as a course bridging basic medical sciences and clinical medicine, has an important disciplinary value in the medical education system. This study investigated the composition of parasitology teachers from multiple medical colleges and universities across China. The results showed that there was a significant difference in the proportion of teachers with clinical medicine background knowledge, and there was common dilemma that there were insufficient clinical medicine knowledge reserves among teachers in some medical colleges and universities, who encountered severe teaching challenges. Based on this issue, this study constructed a basic-clinical medicine collaborative problem-based learning (PBL) teaching model. This model integrated theoretical teaching, case analyses, and experimental operations, and combined transdisciplinary team building and multidimensional teacher training, which significantly improved the clinical teaching capability among parasitology teachers, and effectively compensated the impact of insufficient clinical medicine knowledge reserves on teaching. Following teaching reform, students' scores significantly improved, and their case analysis capability enhanced. This study provides a practical path to address the shortage of clinical medicine background knowledge among parasitology teachers, which facilitates the progress of educational reform of medical parasitology and improvement of teaching quality.
