Application of online teaching platform in clinical neurologypractice

Objective To evaluate the effect of online teaching platform in clinical neurology practice. Methods The participants were medical undergraduate students in the process of clinical practice in Department of Neurology of XiJing hospital, who were divided into the traditional practice teaching group(n=77) and online platform auxiliary practice teaching group (n=90), respectively carrying out the corresponding rotation practice teaching. Unified objective structured clinical examination was given to two groups of students to implement departmental rotation examination, and investigation was made among teachers and students on the evaluation of the effect of practice. SPSS 19.0 was used to do t test to the two sets of corresponding evaluation data. Results Total score of departmental rotation examination in online platform auxiliary practice teaching group (69.33 ± 2.74) was significantly higher than traditional teaching group (67.23±2.50) (P=0.000). Scores of basic theories, skill and operation, clinical case analysis in online platform auxiliary practice teaching group were significantly higher than traditional teaching group (P<0.05). However, medical record writing scores in online platform auxiliary practice teaching group (7.39±1.09) were significantly lower than the traditional teaching group (8.03±1.03) (P=0.000). Teachers' evaluation of practice effect was obviously higher in online platform auxiliary practice teaching group (12.33±0.52) than that in traditional teaching group (10.67 ± 1.03) (P=0.005). Students' evaluation of interest in learning, content arrangement, teachers' sense of responsibility, evaluation of teaching ability, practice effect were obviously higher than that of traditional teaching group (P<0.05). Conclusion This study preliminary has achieved good practical effect by using online auxiliary teaching platform, and got high evaluation by both teachers and students. Interactive communication and sharing of resources is easy in the online platform of practice teaching. Online platform will help students develop with clinical neurology diagnosis thinking. Key words: Online teaching platform; Neurology; Clinical practice