Changes of Theoretical and Experimental Pharmacology Teaching in Xian

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Changes of Theoretical and Experimental
Pharmacology Teaching in Xian
Zang Wei-jin Department of Pharmacology School of
Medicine, Xian Jiaotong University
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Changes of Theoretical and Experimental
Pharmacology Teaching
In 21st century, teaching of pharmacology
faces new challenges, which including the direct
consequence of the success of drug discovery with
endless increase of scientific information. It
is very important to convey the importance of
past-modern pharmacological knowledge to our
students. Therefore, changes have to be made
to fit the new knowledge, new attitudes and new
tools. Here, we report some innovative changes of
theoretical and experimental pharmacology
teaching during last few years in our university.

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Outline

• Brief Introduction about Ourselves
• Xian Jiaotong University
• School of Medicine
• Department of Pharmacology
• Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
• Changes in Experimental Pharmacology Teaching
• Results of the Teaching Innovation

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Part I

• Brief Introduction about Ourselves
• Xian Jiaotong University
• School of Medicine
• Department of Pharmacology

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Xian Jiaotong University
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Xian Jiaotong University was established in
year 1896. It has developed into a university
that has the feature of science and engineering
and covers 9 subjects such as science,
engineering, medicine, economics, management, art
and law. It has become an important base
that is the integration of talents training,
scientific research and social services and
propels the social development.
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School of Medicine
Xi'an Jiao Tong University was formed by the
combination of Xi'an Jiao Tong University,
Shaanxi Finance and Economics College and Xian
Medical University (founded in 1937) in April
2000.
The School of Medicine has more than 400
teachers and faculty including 110 professors and
associate professors. School of medicine also
consisted of three teaching Hospitals,
including more than 3000 doctors and nurses.
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School of Medicine
With advanced facilities and instruments, the
School of Medicine has a great strength in
scientific research. The newly set up
medical experimentation center, medical
information center and the animal experimentation
center guarantee a high standard and high quality
of work for scientific research.
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School of Medicine
Anatomy Center
Morphology Center
Medical Experimentation center
Molecular Biology Biochemistry Center
Pathogenic Biology Center
Physiology Pharmacology Center
Research Center
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Department of Pharmacology
The Whole Department
Staff
The proportion of teachers experiencing overseas
study is 53.
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Pharmacology Teaching
Mission of Teaching
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Pharmacology Teaching
Pharmacology Teaching
Experimental Pharmacology Teaching
Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
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Part II

• Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching

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Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
Teaching training
To use multi-media computer-assisted instruction
To adopt heuristic/ Mutual teaching
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Changes of Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
Pharmacology is a discipline as a bridge, not
only to connect pharmacy with medicine, but also
to link foundational medicine to clinical
medicine. In the same time, we tried to harmonize
the new sciences with the old pharmacology.
Drugs, regardless of their origin time, should be
understood how they work and how to be used.
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Pharmacology Teaching
The Bridge Character
Pharmacology
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Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
1 required course 4 selective courses
We emphasize the integration of the cross
among subjects and the development of the
subject.
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Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
Using new teaching skills To use
multi-media computer-assisted instruction.
More and more multi-media computer-assisted
instructions (MCAI ) are applying in our
teaching. We have received good result through
this skill which fully utilizes such forms as
color, sound, cartoon, figure, etc., to express
the content as a intuitionist, novel, vivid way.
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Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
Using new teaching skills To adopt heuristic
teaching to excite students learning interest.
Considering pharmacology teaching involving a
wide range of knowledge, we usually introduce
some relevant background knowledge to excite
students' interest at first, and then teach the
usage of medicine.
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Pharmacology Teaching
Study in different ways
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Changes in Theoretical Pharmacology Teaching
Pharmacology has already been listed in the
bilingual teaching category in our school. We pay
attention to teachers English training,
especially to improve their oral English. We
also study and discuss pharmacology teaching
methods designedly and purposefully.
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Part III

• Changes in Experimental Pharmacology Teaching

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Changes in Experimental Pharmacology Teaching
The experiment course is divided 3 stages
designing functional experiments
foundational and comprehensive functional
experiments
basic skills training
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Changes in Experimental Pharmacology Teaching
To form a course of functional experiment
To participate design and research of
experiments on special topic
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Part IV

• Results of the Teaching Innovation

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1988-2000 680 students Choose functional
experimental class design 596 experiments and
finished 176. 2001-2005 1300 students Choose
functional experimental class design 623
experiments and finished 155. What I
had remembered most during my 5
years studies in medical school was functional
experimental class. I
really enjoyed the experimental design.
----From graduated
students
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Results of the Teaching Innovation
Appreciation from the Students
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Results of the Teaching Innovation
The teaching innovation item of functional
experiment has won the second prize of national
teaching award.
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Results of the Teaching Innovation
Appreciation from Other Universities
Results of the teaching innovation in XJTU
brought new idea to combine the teaching process
of basic skills training together with research
ability training.
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Summary
After innovative changes of theoretical
and experimental pharmacology teaching during
last few years in our university, more and more
students are interested in the course.
Students believe that learning functional
experiment course facilitates them to the study
of other relevant theoretical courses, and
improves their abilities of operating by hands
and using knowledge comprehensively, and fosters
their innovative consciousness and scientific
thinking ability.
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Thank You !