Educational concept
First, our educational goal is to cultivate physicians with following accomplishments and abilities:
(1) Medical profession and humanistic literacy.
(2) The spirit of active and lifelong learning.
(3) Promote the characteristics of military medicine.
Second, in order to inherit the academic and humanistic literacy of NDMC and achieve the educational goals mentioned above, the educational objectives of specific overall curriculum of school of medicine are as follows:
(1) Educate students rich in medical professional knowledge and international vision A1, plus humanities and social care A2
(2) Cultivate students' full-time medical literacy B1, and training active and lifelong learning ability B2
(3) Enhance students' physical fitness C1, and develop team spirit and leadership C2
Third, the core competencies of out medical students before graduation:
| Core competency | Contents | Correspond objectives |
Medical knowledge | Enable students to acquire basic scientific knowledge about medicine | A1 |
Well clinical care | Enable students to independently perform basic clinical skills, care for patients and communicate with each other | A1,B1 |
Military medicine | Students with basic military literacy and to understand the related knowledge of war wound first aid and aerospace medicine | A1,C1 |
Lifelong learning | Enable students to gain independent learning opportunities and develop lifelong learning skills | B2 |
Liberal Arts ability | Cultivate students' mature character and moral integrity, develop a good willingness to learn and work attitude, in addition to professional ethics, strengthen their stability and resistance | A2,C2 |
Global learning | Improve students' foreign language proficiency and international perspectives | A1 |
Doctor-patient interaction | Cultivate interpersonal communication and coordination skills in workplace, including interaction between colleagues and patients | B1,C2 |
Social participation | Promote students' interest in teamwork and social care, and increase their enthusiasm for participating in public affairs | A2,C2 |
Enhance physical fitness | Training students to have a healthy physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and standard military officer figure | C1 |
Curriculum design concept
| Title | Introduction |
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| Strengthen medical humanities education | Ethics courses such as: "Patient, Physician and Society", "Medical and Research Ethics" and "Bioethics and Education" and other humanities-related courses, incorporating the psychological and social environment into the curriculum; adding "Bioethics and Educational Internship and "Service Learning" enable students to expand their perspectives, increase their life experience and set up a service philosophy of life. |
| Basic and clinical curriculum integration | The curriculum of "Vascular system", "Gastrointestinal system", "Muscle system", "Endocrine and metabolism" and "Organ system" is designed to combine physiology, pathology, pharmacology and anatomy. The method of problem-based learning (PBL) could systematically provide students with complete systems from basic to clinical concept. |
| Emphasis on the "hands-on" internship course | The curriculum design emphasizes students' access to basic medical knowledge and skills to enhance clinical learning outcomes. It also provides a "Clinical Communication Situation and Strategy Skills" course to teach students attitude and communication method which they should face patients. In addition, in order to ensure the effectiveness of students' clinical skills learning, students are required to complete the 86 "Clinical Skills Core Courses for Internship Medical Students" and pass the OSCE exam. |
| Developing military medical specialty courses | In order to highlight our military medical characteristics, we integrate military medical science emergency diseases in clinical courses; plus, students should attend "Military Medical and Disaster Casualty Care Training" course during summer session to cultivate a professional military medical personnel. |
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- Update Date:2019-09-29