His current research interests include Environmental Impact Assessment, Toxicity, Waste Management, and Electrochemical applications. He has worked in various government-funded and consulting projects at NTU. He is trained in Life Cycle Assessment tools such as GaBi and SimaPro, Nanotools such as AFM, Ellipsometry, ATR-FTIR and QCMD, USEtox® 2.0-Characterization fact. Liya Ge obtained her B.Eng. in chemical engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 1999. From 1999-2002, she worked as an Engineer in State Oceanic Administration, China. She subsequently completed her PhD study in analytical chemistry from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2005. Since then, Dr. Ge has been working as a researcher and later a senior researcher in NTU. Her current research interests cover analytical chemistry including the development of sensors, biosensors and micro total analysis systems for rapid on-site detection and point-of-care diagnosis. Xiaoxu Fu is currently a PhD student at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He got his master degree in the same school in NTU and his bachelor degree in Shanghai Jiao Tong university in China. His scienfic research and interest is focused on conducting polymers and their application on biomedical, analytical and environmental applications. Grzegorz Lisak obtained his M.Sc. (Chem. Eng.) in physical chemistry in 2007 from Poznań University of Technology, Poland. He obtained his D.Sc. (Tech.
Background
Some Western medicine schools in China established standardized patient (SP) programs for medical education. However, SP programs are rarely applied to the education of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of using standardized patient traditional Chinese medicine (SP-TCM) to improve clinical competency among TCM medical students.
Methods
This study was a prospective, 2-group, parallel-training randomized trial over the course of 5 years. Data were collected from September 2016 to December 2020. Participants in each year were randomly allocated into the traditional-method training group or the SP-TCM training group (1:1) for a 3-month curriculum. Measurement of clinical competency among all trainees was based on a standardized examination composed of scores of medical record documentation, scores of TCM syndrome differentiation and therapeutic regimen, and checklist assessment from both SP-TCMs and TCM professionals. Feedback was collected using semi-constructive questionnaires from both groups.
Results
Compared with those assigned to traditional-method training, those assigned to SP-TCM training demonstrated significantly greater post-training improvement in medical record documentation and TCM syndrome differentiation and therapeutic regimen. Moreover, SP-TCM trainees outscored those assigned to traditional training in the assessment for encounter performance given by independent SP-TCMs and TCM professionals. The SP-TCM method gained higher satisfaction of training efficacy and test performance than the traditional method.
Conclusion
This SP-TCM program demonstrated great benefits for improving clinical competency among TCM medical students.
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