Keywords
Student standardized patient
Clinical teaching
Acute abdomen
Submitted : 2022-07-13
Accepted : 2022-07-28
Published : 2022-08-12
Abstract
Background: In recent years, with the gradual expansion of the scale of medical education, the shortage of medical teaching resources and the reluctance of patients to cooperate with teaching have become increasingly prominent. Objective: To explore the application effect of student standardized patient (SSP) in the clinical teaching of acute abdomen. Methods: Fifty-four fifth-year general medical students from class 1826 of the general department of The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Medical University were selected as the research subjects and randomly divided into two groups, with 27 students in the experimental teaching group, and the remaining 27 students in the conventional teaching group. The experimental teaching group adopted the SSP teaching approach. The SSPs were generated from the training students of the hospital through the recruitment and training process of SSP. In this study, seven qualified SSPs were selected for the clinical teaching of acute abdomen. At the end of the course, a periodic assessment was held. The rank sum test was used to compare the excellent and good rates between the two groups, while t-test was used to compare the difference between the two groups. Results: The results showed that the excellent and good rate of the experimental teaching group was significantly higher than that of the conventional group, in which the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (p < 0.05). In terms of the assessment results, the theoretical scores and skills scores of the experimental teaching group were better than those of the conventional teaching group, in which the differences between the two groups were statistically significant (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Through the training of SSP for acute abdomen and its application in surgical teaching and examination, the superiority of SSP is emphasized. Although there are still some shortcomings in the application of SSP in clinical teaching, it is a relatively new and effective teaching method, and it will play an increasingly critical role in clinical skills training pertaining to the medical specialty.
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