Course construction and practice of clinical pathophysiology for postgraduate student

Abstract

Qinghai University lies in western China. There are some gaps between western and eastern universities at student level, education fund, experiment condition and technique supply for graduate students. To improve educational quality for graduate students, Department of Pathophysiology of Qinghai University focused on teaching methods, evaluation approaches and capacity of teachers and constructed a course named Clinical Pathophysiology for scientific research graduate students. The course adopted a series of measures such as combining lectures with students' self-learning (PBL, paper discussion, lecture for students), introducing experts from other schools to give lectures, establishing formative evaluation, optimizing teacher's group and so on, which have gained some achievements and improved the training quality for graduate students. Key words: Graduate student; Clinical pathophysiology; Course construction