Teaching

The department undertakes 11 courses for MD program, undergraduates, nursing, and adult-education, with a total course periods of 1000 per year. Histology and Embryology is two most featured course in PUMC.

* Featured Course

nheriting fine traditions of PUMC, our faculty emphasizes the regional anatomy while attending the systmic one using biligual teaching.The laboratory lesson takes up a proportion of two-third. The theory and laboratory lessons are broad-based with informative and detailed content, making it domesticly even globally distinctive a course. To enhance the curriculum integration of pre-clinical and clinical aspects, using the anatomy and neuroanatomy courses for 2009 clinical medicine eight-year program as a pilot, and in line with PUMC's characteristics of small-scale elite education, the department has initiated "Clinically-Oriented Anatomy Lectures (COAL)", "Anatomy Surgical Demonstration (ASD)"、"Clinically Oriented Seminars (COS-Anatomy)", for which clinical instructors are invited to give lectures up to 58 lesson periods. The department engages 17 clinicians in PUMC Hospital as adjunct faculty, 18 senior students as teaching assistants, and former dean Prof. Chenggang Cao. The old tradition of collective preparation is also revived. The training program of theory and laboratory anatomy lessons is launched for young faculty members. The department has invited Dr. Lawrence Rizzolo, the dean of Anatomy Department of Yale School of Medicine, as our visiting professor. During his 10-day visit in March, Dr. Rizzolo gave three theory and laboratory demonstration lessons on regional anatomy, and had profound interactions with professors and students. Long-term collaboration and faculty training programs are established with Anatomy Department of Yale School of Medicine.

The teaching team of histology and embryology continue to improve their featured course. In classroom, the team integrates theory with practice, and enhances the transverse contact across various disciplines. Clinicians are engaged to give embryology seminars, in which students are able to witness clinical applications of the theoretical knowledge, and increase their interest in clinical work while reviewing the knowledge of embryology. As for online teaching, latest electronic courseware (including theory and laboratory lessons) are all uploaded to the campus intranet, ensuring the students' access to relevant materials in advance, facilitating their learning. The “QQ group” for class 2009 is set up for assigning exercises and after-class discussion, which is well received by the students. In the postgraduate histochemistry, questionnaire surveys are frequently conducted as feedbacks. Based on the results, the team adjusts teaching contents, added practical histochemical techniques, which meets the research demands of the students, and facilitates application of their knowledge into the future work.

Self-designed exercise books for regional anatomy and neuroanatomy is popular among students. The lecture notes of histochemistry for postgraduates are closly finished, which will be put into use in 2013. Multimedia teaching website for anatomy is also under construction.

Young faculty members of the department have won multiple awards in “Essential Teaching Skills Competition” in PUMC, SBS, as well as at the municipal level. In the first PUMC “My Favorate Teacher” election organized by the Students Union, six teachers of the department are nominated, accounting for two-thirds of the total nominees. The final awarded teachers from the SBS all come from our department.