Objective To analyze the effects of disease-oriented case teaching combined with Mini Quest method in outpatient oral care teaching.Methods Sixty-eight oral care interns who interned in the De-partment of General Dentistry at Ninth People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine from June 2022 to February 2024 were selected and randomly divided into two groups according to the teaching mode:in the control group,34 interns were taught according to the traditional teaching method,and the other 34 interns in the experimental group were taught according to the disease-oriented case teaching combined with the Mini Quest method.Four weeks after the completion of the teaching,the theoretical and practical assessment results and critical thinking skills of the two groups were compared,and the data were sta-tistically analyzed by SPSS 25.0 software.Results The theoretical and practical assessment scores of the ex-perimental group were 82.53±6.43 and 79.32±9.86,which were higher than those of the control group 76.48±7.62 and 71.22±8.49,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant(P<0.05).Be-sides,the critial thinking of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group(P<0.001).Conclusions The application of disease-oriented case teaching combined with the Mini Quest method in outpatient oral care teaching can enhance the teaching effect with improving students'theoretical and practical assessment performance and critical thinking ability,which improves the teaching effect and is worthy of further promotion.
Oral care teachingCase teachingMini Quest methodDisease-oriented