1.Development of the "Clinical Ethics" Course for the Eight-Year Clinical Medicine Program: Explorations and Practices by an Interdisciplinary Teaching Team
Jiangli HAN ; Yali CONG ; Qiong BAI ; Shu LI ; Guangkuan XIE ; Tongyan HAN ; Chuan MA ; Ying YAO ; Fei DONG ; Huilin LIU ; Rui WU ; Qinggang GE ; Liang WANG ; Yuxi XIA ; Shixian GU ; Xuan HE ; Ning SHEN
Medical Journal of Peking Union Medical College Hospital 2026;17(5):1223-1229
With the rapid advancement of medical technology and the increasing complexity of clinical environments, competence in clinical ethical decision-making has become an indispensable core competency for exemplary physicians. However, traditional medical ethics education has long been confronted with the persistent challenges of theory-practice dissociation and the disconnect between pedagogical settings and clinical realities. Thus, how to construct a "Clinical Ethics" curriculum that aligns with the objectives of training high-caliber medical professionals has emerged as a critical and challenging issue in current medical education reform. To effectively address this challenge, the Office of Education at Peking University Third Hospital, since 2021, has assembled a multidisciplinary "Clinical Ethics" teaching and management team comprising faculty from Peking University School of Humanities and key clinical specialists from the hospital. In 2022, the "Clinical Ethics" elective course was formally launched for fourth-year students in the eight-year MD program who had completed coursework in "Medical Ethics" and organ-system-based curricula, with the aim of exploring and operationalizing a pre-clinical ethics education model tailored for senior medical students. The course employs a modular instructional design encompassing "theoretical review-case-based deliberation-clinical workshop", which effectively facilitates the deep integration of medical humanities with clinical practice.Following four years of iterative refinement through the "plan-act-observe-reflect" cycle, the course has demonstrated positive outcomes in enhancing students' ethical awareness and decision-making capabilities, and has preliminarily established a sustainable collaborative mechanism among the multidisciplinary faculty team. This article systematically delineates the course development background, pedagogical model and methodological innovations, and the multidisciplinary collaborative framework, alongside reflections and summaries based on implementation outcomes, with the intent of providing references for the future development of "Clinical Ethics" curricula.
2.Clinical Observation of Acupoint Application with Xiong Bi Tie for Unstable Angina Pectoris
Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 2016;35(6):653-655
Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of acupoint application with Xiong Bi Tie in treating unstable angina pectoris. Method Sixty eligible subjects with unstable angina pectoris were randomized into a control group (treated with basic Western medication) and a treatment group (intervened by the basic Western medication plus acupoint application with Xiong Bi Tie), 30 cases in each group. The symptoms of unstable angina pectoris, syndromes and signs of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and cardiogram were recorded, and the clinical efficacies were also observed. Result In comparing the improvement of angina pectoris, the treatment group was better than the control group, with a statistical significance (P<0.05). From the perspective of TCM syndromes and signs, the efficacy of the treatment group was significantly better than that of the control group (P<0.05). Regarding the cardiogram, the total effective rate was 76.7% in the treatment group versus 50.0% in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion Acupoint application with Xiong Bi Tie can significantly improve the angina symptoms and cardiogram result of unstable angina pectoris (blood stagnation caused by qi deficiency syndrome), and it’s safe and easy-to-operate.
3.Observations on the Efficacy of Superficial Needling plus External Washing with Chinese Herbal Medicine in Treating Post-stroke Shoulder-hand Syndrome
Tongbo JIANG ; Tongyan MA ; Bing WANG
Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 2016;35(7):789-791
Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy of superficial needling plus external washing with Chinese herbal medicine in treating post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome.Methods Sixty patients with post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome were randomly allocated to treatment and control groups, 30 cases each. The treatment group received superficial needling plus external washing with Chinese herbal medicine and the control group, conventional acupuncture. Pain severity was assessed using the visual analogue scale (VAS) and upper limb function was assessed using the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) of motor recovery in the two groups before and after treatment. The clinical therapeutic effects were compared between the two groups.Results The total efficacy rate was 96.7% in the treatment group and 83.3% in the control group; there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05). There were statistically significant pre-/post-treatment differences in the VAS score and the FMA score in the two groups (P<0.05). There were statistically significant post-treatment differences in the VAS score and the FMA score between the treatment and control groups (P<0.05).Conclusion Superficial needling plus external washing with Chinese herbal medicine is an effective way to treat post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome.

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