Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Graduate Institute of Adult Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
BMC Med Educ. 2020 Jan 31;20(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s12909-020-1946-7.
Flipped classroom is known to improve learning efficiency and to develop one's ability to apply high-level knowledge. To investigate the effect of flipped classroom approach on teaching evidence-based medicine to medical technology students, we conducted a tailor-made six flipped classroom based EBM courses for medical technology students.
This study adopted a qusai-experimental design with 62 medical technology interns as the research object. Students in the experimental group attended the flipped classroom course, while students in the control group attended the traditional course. The learning outcomes were evaluated by Fresno test in both groups. Furthermore, to understand student's perceptions on the flipped classroom approach, students in the experimental group were required to fill in a satisfaction survey and answer some open-ended questions.
The Fresno test scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than that of the control group. From the results of the satisfaction survey, we know that students were satisfied with this course format. Students claimed that the flipped classroom approach could improve their learning efficiency and the interactions with teacher could help them to think more deeply.
To conclude, most students showed positive attitudes and views on flipped classroom strategy. Moreover, students' questions were solved more effectively during class resulting in an improvement of effectiveness of evidence-based medicine trainings.
翻转课堂有助于提高学习效率，培养运用高阶知识的能力。为了研究翻转课堂对医学技术专业学生循证医学教学的影响，我们专门为医学技术专业学生设计了 6 个基于翻转课堂的循证医学课程。
本研究采用准实验设计，以 62 名医学技术实习生为研究对象。实验组学生参加翻转课堂课程，对照组学生参加传统课程。两组学生均采用 Fresno 测试评估学习效果。此外，为了了解学生对翻转课堂的看法，实验组学生需要填写一份满意度调查，并回答一些开放性问题。
实验组 Fresno 测试成绩明显高于对照组。从满意度调查的结果来看，学生对这种课程模式表示满意。学生们表示，翻转课堂可以提高他们的学习效率，与教师的互动可以帮助他们更深入地思考。
综上所述，大多数学生对翻转课堂策略持积极态度和看法。此外，课堂上学生的问题得到了更有效的解决，从而提高了循证医学培训的效果。
