Methods A total of 97 third-year clinical medicine undergraduates in 2017 grade who studied physical diagnostics in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University in the spring semester of 2020 were selected. They were adopted the online and offline combined teaching mode as the online and offline combined group. At the same time, 116 third-year clinical medicine undergraduates in 2016 grade who also studied physical diagnostics in the spring semester of 2019 were selected to adopt the traditional teaching mode as the traditional teaching group. The two groups were taught by the same teachers in the same hospital. The results of the theoretical and practical skills assessment of the two groups, and the feedback and evaluation of the students and teachers on the teaching were compared.
Results The basic theoretical score, practical skill score and total score of students in the online and offline combined group were (34.05±4.29)points, (45.96±2.08)points and (80.02±5.03)points, respectively. The results of the traditional teaching group were (34.86±4.70)points, (44.60±1.25)points and (79.40±5.34)points, respectively. There were no statistical differences between the theoretical basic scores and total scores in the two groups (t=1.30, 0.77, all P>0.05), while the practical skill score of the online and offline combined group was significantly higher than that of the traditional teaching group (t=5.89, P<0.05). Based on the feedback evaluation, the online and offline combined mode improved students′ practical ability (97.94%, 95/97), stimulated learning interest (98.97%, 96/97), improved autonomous learning ability (96.91%, 94/97) and teaching satisfaction (95.88%, 93/97), which were significantly higher than those of traditional teaching group [87.07%(101/116), 83.62%(97/116), 81.90%(95/116) and 82.76%(96/116)] (χ2=8.49, 14.63, 11.91, 9.09, all P<0.05). Teachers′ satisfaction with students performance of the online and offline combined group was higher than that of the traditional teaching group [91.75% (89/97), 81.89% (95/116)], the difference was statistically significant (χ2=4.36, P<0.05).
Conclusions Online and offline combined teaching mode can significantly improve students′ physical diagnostics practical skills, stimulate students′ interest in learning, improve autonomous learning ability and teaching satisfaction of teachers and students. It has a good teaching effect and is worthy of promotion.