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Application and Evaluation of Flipped Teaching Based on Video Conference in Standardized Training for Internal Medicine Residents during Vacation

Zhang, X.-Y.
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BackgroundInfectious disease training was a necessary part of standardized training for internal medicine residents, and a designated hospital by the health administration department provided infectious diseases training for residents in those hospitals that did not meet the training standards for infectious diseases in the region. However, due to holidays, coordination of training dates among hospitals, and vacation of other reasons, the actual training time in the Department of Infectious Diseases might be insufficient. ObjectiveI aimed to explore Flipped Teaching with Video Conference as the carrier in infectious disease training for internal medicine residents, to make up for the lack of actual training time of the Department of Infectious Diseases for those residents caused by vacation, and to ensure the smooth implementation and quality assurance of infectious disease training for those residents. MethodsVertical management mode was adopted, management team and lecturer team were established, and training program and teaching implementation were formulated. Flipped Teaching based on Video Conference was carried out for internal medicine residents of dispatched hospitals who planned to participate in infectious diseases training of the designated hospital in April. The quantitative analysis was applied to this teaching evaluation, and the evaluation indexes were included into statistical analysis to evaluate the effect of the teaching model. ResultsAll 19-member internal medicine residents participated in the Flipped Teach based on Video Conference from April 1 to 4, of which 12 residents were scheduled to participate in infectious diseases training from March 1 to April 30, and 7 residents were scheduled to participate in infectious diseases training from April 1 to May 31. A management team of 6 internal medicine residents was built, and a group of 12 lecturers were composed of 12 those residents who were scheduled to receive infectious diseases training in the designated hospital from March 1 to April 30. According to the requirements of training diseases in the Department of Infectious Diseases, 12 training contents were selected to carry out teaching, and the implementation rate of teaching plan was over 90%. A total of 197 feedback questionnaires were collected. The feedback that the teaching quality was "good" and "very good" accounted for more than 96%, and the attendance rate of the whole teaching process reached more than 94%. About this teaching, 6 internal medicine residents put forward 18 suggestions of "Improvement suggestions", accounting for 9.1%; and 11 internal medicine residents gave 110 suggestions of "Praise highlights", accounting for 55.8%. The overall evaluation feedback of flipped teaching was good, P<0.001. ConclusionFlipped Teach based on Video Conference was generally effective in carrying out for internal medicine residents participating in the infectious diseases training, and it could be used as a supplementary training method for standardized training of internal medicine residents to make up for the shortage of actual training period in a certain stage.

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Zhang, X.-Y.. 2022-04-18. Application and Evaluation of Flipped Teaching Based on Video Conference in Standardized Training for Internal Medicine Residents during Vacation. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.17.488599

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