Flanagan E, Walsh C, Tubridy N
Department of Medicine, Mater Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin, Ireland.
Eur J Neurol. 2007 Oct;14(10):1109-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2007.01911.x.
(i) To determine whether neurology is the medical specialty with which Irish students and doctors have most difficulty, (ii) appraise attitudes towards how neurology is taught, and (iii) suggest ways teaching might be improved. A questionnaire on medical teaching was given to 457 medical students and junior doctors in Ireland. Perceived difficulties with neurology compared with seven other medical specialties were analysed. Other aspects of teaching were assessed including why neurology is perceived as difficult and ways teaching could be improved. Neurology was perceived as the most difficult of the eight medical specialties assessed. Participants felt they learned most at bedside tutorials with surprisingly few learning online. Neurology was perceived as difficult because of insufficient exposure to the subject, lack of teaching, and perceived complexity. Neurology teaching could be improved by increasing the number of bedside tutorials and by greater exposure to neurological patients for the students in clinical training. Medical students and doctors find neurology difficult. The teaching of neurology is reported as moderate to poor. The reasons for this are wide ranging but an emphasis on increased numbers of tutorials and greater integration of pre-clinical neurology to clinical years would improve teaching.
(i) 确定神经学是否是爱尔兰学生和医生最难掌握的医学专业，(ii) 评估对神经学教学方式的态度，以及(iii) 提出改进教学的方法。向爱尔兰的457名医学生和初级医生发放了一份关于医学教学的问卷。分析了与其他七个医学专业相比，神经学方面感知到的困难。还评估了教学的其他方面，包括神经学被认为难的原因以及教学改进的方法。在评估的八个医学专业中，神经学被认为是最难的。参与者认为他们在床边辅导中学到的最多，令人惊讶的是在线学习的很少。神经学被认为难是因为对该学科的接触不足、缺乏教学以及其复杂性。通过增加床边辅导的数量以及让临床实习的学生更多地接触神经科患者，可以改进神经学教学。医学生和医生觉得神经学很难。据报道，神经学教学质量中等偏下。原因多种多样，但强调增加辅导数量以及将临床前神经学更好地融入临床学年会改进教学。
