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An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China
BACKGROUND: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gained increasing acceptance and popularity by the global community. The current study aimed to investigate self-reported evaluations of learning TCM and opinions about TCM courses among undergraduate international students majoring in conventional...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7791796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03174-1 |
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author | Qu, Fan Zhang, Qing Dai, Minchen He, Yijing Wu, Jiaqi Zhang, Xian Zhu, Yuhang Gu, Ying’er Wang, Fangfang Xu, Xiangrong |
author_facet | Qu, Fan Zhang, Qing Dai, Minchen He, Yijing Wu, Jiaqi Zhang, Xian Zhu, Yuhang Gu, Ying’er Wang, Fangfang Xu, Xiangrong |
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description | BACKGROUND: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gained increasing acceptance and popularity by the global community. The current study aimed to investigate self-reported evaluations of learning TCM and opinions about TCM courses among undergraduate international students majoring in conventional medicine at a university in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine. A self-reported questionnaire was administered to international undergraduates who were enrolled in the TCM course during the 2018 and 2019 academic years (n = 157). The course employed a student-centered, multiform learning model. Demographic data and self-reported evaluations of TCM learning background and TCM learning course were obtained to conduct the analysis. RESULTS: A total of 133 students responded to the questionnaire. Among the respondents, 21.0% had some TCM-related knowledge, and 51.1% were interested in learning TCM before the course. Ninety-six students (85.7%) were from Asia. Students from Thailand showed significantly more interest in learning TCM than did students from other Asian countries (p = 0.025). After the course, 77.2% of students agreed that the course had brought about many benefits, 86.4% were satisfied with the course content, and 77.3% were satisfied with the teaching method. Students expressed their willingness to further learn acupuncture and to obtain more skilled practice through more visualized learning methods. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of the international students we surveyed agreed that the TCM course improved their interest in and understanding of TCM. It is thus suggested that TCM education should be directed toward students’ learning barriers and needs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12906-020-03174-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-77917962021-01-11 An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China Qu, Fan Zhang, Qing Dai, Minchen He, Yijing Wu, Jiaqi Zhang, Xian Zhu, Yuhang Gu, Ying’er Wang, Fangfang Xu, Xiangrong BMC Complement Med Ther Research Article BACKGROUND: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gained increasing acceptance and popularity by the global community. The current study aimed to investigate self-reported evaluations of learning TCM and opinions about TCM courses among undergraduate international students majoring in conventional medicine at a university in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine. A self-reported questionnaire was administered to international undergraduates who were enrolled in the TCM course during the 2018 and 2019 academic years (n = 157). The course employed a student-centered, multiform learning model. Demographic data and self-reported evaluations of TCM learning background and TCM learning course were obtained to conduct the analysis. RESULTS: A total of 133 students responded to the questionnaire. Among the respondents, 21.0% had some TCM-related knowledge, and 51.1% were interested in learning TCM before the course. Ninety-six students (85.7%) were from Asia. Students from Thailand showed significantly more interest in learning TCM than did students from other Asian countries (p = 0.025). After the course, 77.2% of students agreed that the course had brought about many benefits, 86.4% were satisfied with the course content, and 77.3% were satisfied with the teaching method. Students expressed their willingness to further learn acupuncture and to obtain more skilled practice through more visualized learning methods. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of the international students we surveyed agreed that the TCM course improved their interest in and understanding of TCM. It is thus suggested that TCM education should be directed toward students’ learning barriers and needs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12906-020-03174-1. BioMed Central 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7791796/ /pubmed/33413274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03174-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Qu, Fan Zhang, Qing Dai, Minchen He, Yijing Wu, Jiaqi Zhang, Xian Zhu, Yuhang Gu, Ying’er Wang, Fangfang Xu, Xiangrong An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China |
title | An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China |
title_full | An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China |
title_fullStr | An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China |
title_full_unstemmed | An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China |
title_short | An evaluation survey of traditional Chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in China |
title_sort | evaluation survey of traditional chinese medicine learning among international students majoring in conventional medicine: a study from a university in china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7791796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03174-1 |
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