Research on the Evaluation of Teaching Non-nutriology Medical Students Through Elective Courses for Nutrition and Disease
Objective To investigate the non-nutriology medical students'mastery of nutrition knowledge and their attitude towards nutrition knowledge before and after nutrition and disease through elective courses,in order to provide some basis for improving their comprehensive service ability.Methods A total of 100 non-nutriology medical students who chose the public elective course"Nutrition and Disease"in the second semester of the 2021-2022 academic year of Kunming Medical University from March to May 2022 were selected.A questionnaire was conducted to investigate the access to nutrition knowledge of non-nutrition major medical students,to understand their correct answers to nutrition knowledge(clinical nutrition and basic nutrition),and to compare and evaluate the degree of mastery of nutrition knowledge and the change of attitude towards learning nutrition knowledge before and after the elective course.Results The sources of non-nutriology medical students'access to nutrition knowledge were from elective courses offered by schools(75.0%),self-study(12.0%),network platform(8.0%)and others(5.0%).The correct rate of clinical nutrition knowledge mastered has improved after elective courses,including nutritional risk screening,low protein diet,criteria for obesity,and obesity related disease,the differences were statistically significant(P<0.05).Nutrition intervention,the differences was not statistically significant(P>0.05).The correct rate of basic nutrition knowledge mastered has improved after elective courses,including daily salt intake,daily water intake,nutrients,energy generated by 1 g carbohydrates,energy generated by 1 g protein,energy generated by 1 g fat and nutrition facts,the differences were statistically significant(P<0.05).In terms of attitude towards learning nutrition knowledge,it was necessary to increase clinical nutrition learning(90.0%before and 98.0%after),the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).It was useful to master nutrition knowledge(99.0%before and 100.0%after),and nutritional therapy was as important as surgery,drugs,radiotherapy and chemotherapy(96.0%before and 99.0%after),the differences were not statistically significant(P>0.05).Conclusion The main way for non-nutriology medical students to acquire nutrition knowledge in school mainly comes from elective courses.The correct rate of them to master nutrition knowledge and nutritional literacy have improved significantly after elective courses.Nutrition courses should be offered to non-nutriology medical students,so as to improve their clinical comprehensive quality.
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