Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 772-775.

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Teaching evaluation of online course of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for undergraduates of Nursing College, Peking Union Medical College in 2020

YANG Dan, WU Qun-li*, LIANG Xiao-chun, TIAN Guo-qing, SUN Hua, PIAO Yuan-lin, ZHANG Meng-ren   

  1. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Peking Union Medical College Hospital,CAMS & PUMC,Beijing 100730,China
  • Received:2021-02-18 Revised:2021-03-20 Online:2021-05-05 Published:2021-05-06
  • Contact: *chinlie@163.com

Abstract: Objective To evaluate the online teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) for undergraduates in Nursing College of Peking Union Medical College in 2020. Methods Totally 144 students were asked to fill in the questionnaire of TCM teaching focusing on 7 parts of questions:the TCM and the courses, comparison of online with offline one, the evaluation of students' autonomous learning, the comprehensive evaluation of teaching, the evaluation of learning outcomes, and the evaluation of examination The overall evaluation of the course and the evaluation of the future application of TCM were statistically analyzed. Results Totally 144 questionnaires were collected. About 90% of the students were interested in TCM and was necessary to learn. There are 76.39% of the students thought that the teaching platform of Tencent conference was the best. In online teaching, 34.72% of the students fully joined the lectures, and the others only joined part of the course. Results also showed that 48.61% of students believed the learning outcome of online teaching was similar to that of offline teaching and 22.22% preferred online one. More than 99% of the students thought that teachers had mastered the skills of using online teaching platform, and the evaluation of quality and effect of teaching was good. Over half of students (66.67%) hoped to introduce MOOC, 45.83% hoped to introduce micro class,38.89% students hoped to use flipped classroom and 55.56% of them chose open book examination combined with usual attendance for final assessment. The results also showed that 39.58% of students thought that TCM was difficult to learn and 46.93% thought that TCM could not be self-taught. More than 50% of the students said that they would let their patients receive TCM treatment or nursing in the future. Conclusions It is necessary for undergraduates in hospital of Western Medicine to study TCM and to increase the teaching hours. Online teaching raises higher standards for teachers, and the evaluation can improve teaching quality.

Key words: online teaching evaluation, Traditional Chinese Medicine, nursing undergraduate

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