Qualitative study of course quality improvement in Introduction to General Practice based on learner's perspective
Objective To understand the views of medical students of Capital Medical University on Introduction to General Practice and their suggestions for improving the course,and then to table feasible proposals for"student-centered"course quality improvement.Methods The purposive sampling method was used to select 17 medical students from the five-year and long-term classes of clinical medicine,clinical pediatrics,and optometry medicine in Capital Medical University who had studied the 36-hour course Introduction to General Practice as the research subjects."One-on-one"semi-structured in-depth interview was conducted from December 2023 to March 2024.Nvivo 11.0 software and thematic framework analysis method were used to analyze data.Results Among the invited medical students,five refused to be interviewed,and finally 12 medical students were interviewed,and through analyzing interview data,three themes and 17 sub-themes were extracted.The three themes were theoretical course adjustment,community internship adjustment,and teaching mode adjustment,respectively.Among them,theoretical course adjustment included nine sub-themes,community internship adjustment included five sub-themes,and teaching mode adjustment included three sub-themes.Conclusion The improvement of course quality of Introduction to General Practice can be achieved by strengthening the integration,improvement and practice of professional theoretical knowledge,adopting different teaching modes based on different course contents,increasing practical time,strengthening supervision of internship courses and conducting community teacher training.