Keywords
Case-based teaching
Digital intelligence
Virtual simulation
Teaching model
Submitted : 2026-05-04
Accepted : 2026-05-19
Published : 2026-06-03
Abstract
As a key basic discipline in medicine, epidemiology plays a critical role in cultivating clinical medical students’ scientific research thinking and basic disease prevention and control capabilities. However, epidemiology is often regarded as a non-core subject, leading to low learning motivation and poor knowledge mastery and application among clinical medical students. To address these problems, we constructed and implemented a case-driven four-element integrated teaching model for epidemiology, consisting of four components: online preview via the Wisdom Tree platform, offline systematic theoretical teaching, case-based experimental teaching, and simulation-based practical training. Online preview helps students grasp basic course content; offline lectures consolidate theoretical foundations; case-based teaching strengthens practical application abilities; and simulation training enhances learning interest and applied skills. As the core link, case-based teaching effectively helps students understand abstract theories, stimulates learning interest, and cultivates practical abilities. Practice results show that this model significantly improved students’ knowledge mastery, application abilities, learning attitude, and academic performance, and effectively fostered their scientific research thinking and capacity. It provides a valuable reference for epidemiology teaching reform.
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