Examining the effects of student-centered flipped classroom in physiology education

作者：Chunmei Lu, Jie Xu, Yang Cao, Ying Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Haixia Wen, Yan Yan, Jiao Wang, Minghui Cai, Hui Zhu · 发表于：BMC Medical Education · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1186/s12909-023-04166-8 · 被引用次数：51 · 研究领域：Innovative Teaching Methods、Biomedical and Engineering Education、Problem and Project Based Learning

BACKGROUND: The flipped classroom approach has gained increasing popularity in medical education. Physiology is a basic medical course that studies the phenomena and laws of human life activities, and is a crucial link course connecting preclinical courses and clinical courses. However, there is a paucity of data showing the effectiveness of the flipped classroom model for the entirety of physiology course in medical undergraduate students. METHOD: 131 sophomore students with clinical medicine major at Harbin Medical University were recruited and they were randomly allocated into two groups: the control group which was subjected to traditional lecture teaching (n = 69), and the experimental group which was subjected to flipped classroom teaching (n = 62). To assess the effect of flipped teaching, the usual performance and final exam scores were used to evaluate the physiology learning effectiveness of students. The correlation between the usual performance and final exam scores by Pearson method was also conducted in the two teaching groups. After course completion, an anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted among the subjects of flipped classroom group to assess students' opinion regarding the flipped classroom teaching. RESULTS: Our results showed that the usual performance and final exam scores of students in the flipped classroom were both significantly higher than that in the traditional teaching class (P < 0.05). Moreover, our results also showed that the usual per...