Chen Hao, Ni Ju-Hua
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Xue Yuan Road 38, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China.
Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2013 May-Jun;41(3):139-44. doi: 10.1002/bmb.20695. Epub 2013 May 4.
Biochemistry occupies a unique place in the medical school curricula, but the teaching of biochemistry presents certain challenges. One of these challenges is facilitating students' interest in and mastery of metabolism. The many pathways and modes of regulation can be overwhelming for students to learn and difficult for professors to teach in an engaging manner. The first chapter of the metabolism section in current Chinese biochemistry textbooks covers carbohydrate metabolism. Medical students usually complain about the difficulty of this subject. Here we discuss how to facilitate learning by rearranging the subjects in this introductory chapter of biochemical metabolism and to lay a solid foundation for future study. The strategy involves reorganizing the order in which subjects are taught from simple to complex and from short to long metabolic pathways. Most students taking the curriculum consider that the strategy engages their learning interests in biochemistry and enhances their learning outcomes.
生物化学在医学院课程中占有独特地位，但生物化学教学面临一定挑战。其中一个挑战是激发学生对新陈代谢的兴趣并使其掌握相关知识。众多的代谢途径和调节方式让学生学习起来应接不暇，教授们也难以生动有趣地讲授。当前中文生物化学教材中新陈代谢部分的第一章涵盖碳水化合物代谢。医学生通常抱怨这一学科难度大。在此我们探讨如何通过重新安排生物化学代谢这一开篇章节的内容来促进学习，并为后续学习打下坚实基础。该策略包括按照从简单到复杂、从短代谢途径到长代谢途径的顺序重新组织教学内容。参与该课程的大多数学生认为，这一策略激发了他们对生物化学的学习兴趣，提高了学习效果。
