Research On The Construction Of Medical Methodology Courses Group Based On The Cultivation Of Medical Innovative Ability

The development of medical sciences depends on the continuous improvement of theknowledge ability for the medical sciences themselves and even relies on the growth of themedical talents who have abundant innovative capability. Cultivating and bringing up innovativemedical talents is a sacred mission of medical education entrusted by the times, further a moreesoteric proposition which requires medical education to perform careful analysis. Concerning thecore elements and formative mechanism of the medical innovative ability, this paper puts forwardthe proposition "constructing the medical methodology courses group to promote the cultivation ofthe medical students’ innovative ability” in the medical education circles for the first time.Objectives From the practical level, the students’ medical cognitive abilities which take theextents of the scientific research and writing as symbols, the needs for medical methodologyknowledge of the medical personnel and medical graduate, the status of medical methodologycourse construction and teaching in some medical schools were acknowledged. From thetheoretical level, the concepts of the medical methodology and the medical methodology coursesgroup were defined, the academic origins and subject characteristics of the medical methodologycourses were expounded, the medical methodology courses group was constructed, the innerrelation between the medical methodology courses group and the medical courses system wasclarified, further to demonstrate the teaching mode pattern and the operation mechanism of themedical methodology courses.Methods The systematic, empirical and critical research conceptions were followed and theliterature method, investigation method, comparative method and deductive method wereemployed synthetically in this paper.Objects The three sessions of the medical graduates newly enrolled in the school and a part of theclinical experts were taken as the research objects, their needs for the medical methodology wereacknowledged; the courses programs in some medical colleges in three different periods weretaken as the research objects, the status of its offering medical methodology courses wereacknowledged; the teaching materials in eight years and five years planning were taken as theresearch objects, the expression for the natures of the medical methodology disciplines werebextracted; the medical developing model and the composition of the medical innovative abilitieswere taken as the research objects, the effects of the medical methodology knowledge on theformation of innovative abilities were revealed.Results①The medical students’ innovative abilities which take the extents of the scientificresearch and writing as symbols were acknowledged and should be improved. The poor state is aresult of the weakness of related university courses (i.e. medical methodology courses mentionedin this paper) and their teachings, only16.91%of the students learned the relevant knowledge and information through the curriculum.②The realistic states of the medical methodology coursescommencements in the medical schools were acknowledged, in the22medical colleges in whichthe clinical seven years planning students are enrolled in this survey,2/3of the collegescommence the programs of "medical information retrieval" and "medical statistics", only1/2ofthe colleges commence the programs of "clinical epidemiology" and "scientific researchmethodology";no matter the number of the courses, the commencement of the courses or theconstruction and teaching management regularity of the courses should be improved. This kind ofstate provides the evidence for the inference of the above survey results on the medical graduatestudents and proposes the theory and realistic problem of how to reform.③The realistic state thatthe medical methodology courses are initially formed was acknowledged. As the basis andpremise of medical methodology courses, the subjects of the medical methodology, in the form ofsubjects or fields, has been initially formed and become objective existence. The courses ofmedical methodology also have been in real course form, existing in the curriculum system ofsome medical college.④The principles in constructing courses group were proposed--taking thenatural ecology of the course as the basis, taking its integrated function as the guidance, taking itscontent integration as the methods and taking the improvement of the efficiency as aims; putforward three layers of the meanings to construct the medical methodology courses—forming theconcept of the medical methodology and its courses group in the view of ideas, confirming therightful position of the medical methodology courses group at an overall level of the medicalcourses system, rebuild the various courses at a microcosmic level of the medical methodologycourses.⑤The subject characteristics of the medical methodology courses were expounded.—themulti-dimension of the subject origin, the indirection in reflecting the value, the procedure of theknowledge organization, and the inner relations with the formation of the medical cognitiveabilities including the medical innovative abilities, and reveal their significance in the cultivationof the medical innovative abilities.⑥The scope, structure of the medical methodology coursesgroup and its logical relation with the whole medical courses system were expounded and thewhole functions and effects of the medical methodology course group were revealed--the firstlevel is being accustomed to the scientific methods, the second level is the training of scientificthinking, the third level is shaping the spirit of science. This has laid a theoretical basis for themedical methodology courses group and its construction.⑦The basis for the construction of theteaching mode of the medical methodology was expounded—taking the medical training goal asguidance, reflecting the characteristics of the methodology courses, according with the rule ofmedical students growth and inheriting the previous traditional regularity. The principles inconstructing the teaching mode of the medical methodology courses were revealed—attachingimportance to “the two strengthening” in the teaching objectives, realizing “the two fusion” in theteaching contents, following “the two synchrones” in teaching principles and employ “the twoequal attention” in teaching pattern.Conclusions The medical methodology knowledge is the essential constructive element in the formation of the medical innovative abilities; however, in the current medical education, themedical methodology course construction and teaching did not reach the ideal state; through theconstruction of medical methodology courses group and the corresponding teaching mode, theintegrated advantages can be achieved to promote the cultivation of the medical innovative ability;there are not only the necessity and rationality but also the realistic basis and objective conditionsin the construction of medical methodology courses group and the corresponding teaching mode,the possibility in the practical operating level has its existence.