Looney S W, Grady C S, Steiner R P
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA.
Acad Med. 1998 Jan;73(1):92-4. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199801000-00018.
To update the results of previous surveys of medical schools in the United States concerning their courses in introductory biostatistics and to acquire additional information about these courses.
In 1993, the authors sent a questionnaire to each of the 125 U.S. medical schools listed in the 1992-93 AAMC Directory of American Education. The questionnaire sought information about biostatistics courses and the subjects covered therein.
One hundred of the 125 medical schools (80%) responded to the survey. Of those, 74 required a course in biostatistics as part of their undergraduate medical curriculum. The courses had large enrollments (median, 134) and a median of only 20 hours of instructional time. Most courses included a large amount of material, with 25 possible topics covered by at least 75% of the schools with required courses.
While efforts have been made to incorporate innovative instructional techniques into these courses, most still follow the traditional lecture format and make minimal use of computers. Nevertheless, medical students appeared to have a favorable attitude toward these courses at over half of the schools surveyed.
更新此前针对美国医学院校基础生物统计学课程的调查结果，并获取有关这些课程的更多信息。
1993年，作者向1992 - 1993年美国医学协会（AAMC）美国教育名录中列出的125所美国医学院校各发送了一份调查问卷。该问卷旨在获取有关生物统计学课程及其涵盖主题的信息。
125所医学院校中有100所（80%）回复了调查。其中，74所院校要求将生物统计学课程作为其本科医学课程的一部分。这些课程的注册人数众多（中位数为134人），教学时间中位数仅为20小时。大多数课程涵盖大量内容，至少75%开设必修课程的学校涉及25个可能的主题。
尽管已努力将创新教学技术融入这些课程，但大多数课程仍采用传统讲座形式，且极少使用计算机。然而，在接受调查的一半以上学校中，医学生似乎对这些课程持积极态度。
