How to construct a characteristic biomedical engineering practice teaching system?
In the 2 1 century, the intersection and integration of medicine and other disciplines has become the necessity of the development of modern medicine. Therefore, it is an objective demand to cultivate high-quality talents to establish multidisciplinary experimental teaching centers in medical colleges, strengthen exchanges between different disciplines from the aspects of thinking mode, knowledge structure and practical links, and guide students to study and solve problems in this discipline from the perspectives of medicine, engineering and science.
Biomedical engineering experimental teaching center was established in 2006. Relying on the medical background of the school, making full use of the advantages of affiliated hospitals, integrating the original laboratories of biomedical engineering, medicine, computer, mathematics, physics and other disciplines, we will build an experimental platform for teaching, learning and research for all teachers and students, reflecting the intersection of disciplines and highlighting the characteristics of combining medicine with work. The central laboratory covers a total area of 2530m2, with 0/7 specialized laboratories and 7 off-campus practice bases, with the total value of instruments and equipment of about 5.52 million yuan. At present, there are 33 full-time experimental teaching staff and 4 part-time teachers/kloc-0. 36 experiments were offered to all majors in the school, and practical links such as internship and curriculum design were completed. At the same time, carry out college students' scientific and technological competitions and innovative activities training. 20 1 1 Biomedical Engineering Experimental Teaching Center was approved to be built as an experimental teaching demonstration center in Jiangsu Province.
1. Teaching ideas and reform ideas
Inheritance of biomedical engineering experimental teaching center? People-oriented, quality education, scientific and technological innovation? Based on the development trend of contemporary biomedical engineering, the strategic policy of taking students as the center, integrating knowledge imparting, ability training and quality education, and paying attention to "Biomedical Engineering College" has been established. Four combinations? That is, the combination of medicine and engineering, theory and practice, teaching and scientific research, inheritance and innovation.
In order to embody and implement the idea of experimental teaching, based on the medical background of the school and the characteristics of biomedical engineering, the center has determined the reform idea on the basis of full investigation: establishing a multi-stage, multi-level and multi-disciplinary experimental teaching system with the cultivation of innovative spirit and practical ability as the main line; Implement various teaching reform measures and fully embody the experimental teaching demonstration center? Five natures? That is, intersection, autonomy, openness, practicality and innovation.
2. Construct a distinctive practical teaching system.
In the construction of experimental teaching system, the center adheres to the student-oriented principle, scientifically plans the experimental teaching content, and divides the experimental teaching content into four organically connected platforms: professional/basic experimental platform, system/comprehensive experimental platform, training platform and innovative practice platform. Each platform is divided into different stages and levels, which are connected with each other to form a multi-stage, multi-level and multi-disciplinary practical teaching system.
2. 1 professional and basic experimental platform
The platform has the characteristics of foundation, verifiability and single discipline, and is suitable for basic medical course experiments (such as anatomy experiments), basic engineering course experiments (such as circuit analysis experiments) and practical experiments. This level of experimental teaching is mainly to train students' scientific thinking, cultivate students' basic experimental skills, standardize operating habits and consolidate theoretical knowledge. On this platform, you can also train advanced mathematics competitions and mathematical modeling competitions.
2.2 Systematic and comprehensive experimental platform
This platform is used to carry out bio-electronic technology (such as biomedical sensors), biological signal acquisition and processing technology experiments (such as acquisition and processing of neuroelectric signals and ECG signals) and project planning, management and design training (such as software engineering design and course design). Its teaching content is comprehensive, designed and interdisciplinary. This level of experimental training is conducive to improving students' ability to integrate different disciplines, analyze and deal with complex problems. On this platform, students can apply for innovative projects of college students in groups according to their own interests.
2.3 innovative practice platform
This platform carries out various scientific and technological competitions and innovative activities. For example, the national electronic design competition for college students and the mathematical modeling competition? Challenge Cup? Extracurricular academic scientific and technological works competition, provincial entrepreneurship plan competition, advanced mathematics competition and college students' practical and innovative training projects. This level of experiment is mainly based on students' self-study and independent design, and teachers guide, guide and evaluate. Through this platform, we can train students' scientific thinking and better cultivate their innovative ability.
2.4 practical training platform
This platform is aimed at students majoring in biomedical engineering and is mainly set up in the affiliated hospital of the school. Its contents include basic technical support skills, medical instrument operation training, equipment procurement and management training to improve students' employment competitiveness. On this basis, students' graduation design and graduation thesis writing are carried out, and scientific papers are published.
In the whole training process of students, the experimental teaching activities follow the above-mentioned practical teaching system, from basic training to professional practice to comprehensive innovation activities, and continue to deepen gradually, in line with students' cognitive laws and growth laws.
3. Reform the experimental teaching and highlight the characteristics.
In order to fully embody the five characteristics of the experimental teaching demonstration center, the center actively explores new experimental teaching modes and carries out a series of reforms on experimental teaching methods and means.
3. 1 Set up comprehensive experiments to stimulate students' interest in learning.
Comprehensive experiment refers to the experimental content involving the comprehensive knowledge of this course or related course knowledge, which embodies the intersection of multiple courses and multiple experimental projects. Under the guidance of the general principle of reducing confirmatory and repetitive experiments and increasing practical and innovative experiments, the center has set up 83 comprehensive experiments. The establishment of comprehensive experiments not only optimizes teaching resources and reduces repeated opening, but also improves students' ability to integrate knowledge of different disciplines and courses of medicine, engineering and science, increases students' hands-on opportunities and stimulates students' interest in experiments.
3.2 Adoption? Double-teacher teaching? Reflect the characteristics of the combination of medical care and nursing.
Pay attention to the close combination of engineering knowledge and medical application in experimental teaching content, and adopt? Double-teacher teaching? The' comprehensive experiment' is taught by both medical teachers and science and engineering teachers. The experimental contents and teaching methods reflect the combination of medicine and engineering. This teaching method is not only conducive to cultivating compound talents, but also enables teaching teachers to complement each other's advantages, improve each other in mutual communication and promote interdisciplinary integration.
3.3 Use open experiments to cultivate students' innovative ability.
All laboratories in the center are open to students after class and in summer. Students can use the open laboratory to complete experimental preview, elective experiments, self-designed experiments, summer research training and so on. In addition, the center makes full use of open experiments to guide students' various scientific and technological competitions and practical projects, and provides a special laboratory and experimental platform for various competitions and extracurricular innovation activities, which greatly improves students' innovation ability.
3.4 Advocate independent design of experiments to improve students' comprehensive quality.
The center actively advocates independent design experiments. Self-designed experiments have changed students' passive learning habits. Under the general guidance of teachers, students can independently choose experimental projects, design experimental schemes and carry out experiments on the basis of interest groups and open experiments. What are the experiments designed by students themselves? Indirect measurement of human arterial blood pressure? Respiratory frequency recorder based on thermistor? ,? Medical chronograph stopwatch? ,? Drug conveyor belt? Wait a minute. Through self-designed experiments, students can master the basic procedures and methods of scientific research and improve their self-study ability, innovation ability and comprehensive quality.
3.5 Use the advantages of affiliated hospitals to build experimental training bases.
Different from other engineering colleges, the biomedical engineering experimental teaching demonstration center keeps close contact with many affiliated hospitals. Make full use of the advantages of affiliated hospitals in medical equipment and clinical engineering talents, enjoy resources, and establish seven internship training bases, where students can practice, practice and graduate design (thesis), get in touch with medical instruments as soon as possible, and conduct basic skills training such as medical instrument operation, technical support, equipment procurement and management training to fully understand clinical practice.
4. Effect of experimental teaching center construction
4. 1 Teachers have achieved fruitful results in teaching and research, which are contrary to education and teaching.
In the past five years, the center has undertaken 23 teaching topics, including 9 at or above the provincial level; * * * won 62 teaching awards at all levels, including 27 awards at or above the provincial level; Undertake 33 scientific research projects, including 19 at or above the provincial level; Received scientific research awards 14, including 8 awards at or above the provincial level; He has published more than 200 scientific research and teaching papers, won 7 national patents and 2 national software copyrights, and edited 52 textbooks, including 17. Instruct students to obtain 16 awards above the provincial level and10/innovative projects for college students, including 5 provincial projects and 6 school-level projects. Students published 29 papers with the first author.
4.2 Students' comprehensive quality has been continuously improved.
(1) Students' innovative ability has been improved and they have made great achievements in various competitions. In just a few years, in the national electronic design competition for college students, 3 people won the national second prize, 6 people won the provincial first prize and 6 people won the provincial second prize. Nanjing Medical University is the only medical school that won the prize. In the national mathematical modeling competition for college students, 2 people won the national second prize and 1 person won the provincial third prize; Jiangsu Business Plan Competition, 3 people won the second prize in Nanjing Division; In the advanced mathematics competition, 3 people won the second prize in Jiangsu Province and 7 people won the third prize in Jiangsu Province.
(2) Students' scientific research ability is enhanced. Has there been a provincial school level in the past five years? Practical and innovative training program for college students? Established 1 project, including 5 provincial projects. In addition, a large number of students also participated in teaching and research projects at all levels and horizontal projects undertaken by teachers. Through training, students' scientific research ability has been rapidly improved, and 29 papers have been published by the first author, including core journals 10 and EI 1 0.
(3) Students' ability of sustainable development is outstanding. Students are widely praised by internship units during the internship process, and the quality of graduation thesis selection and completion is high. Six people's graduation theses have been screened in different degrees and won excellent papers from provincial groups and individuals.
The students trained by the center have a good employment situation. Take graduates majoring in biomedical engineering as an example. Of the 24 graduates of Grade 06, 4 were admitted to graduate school, 12 were employed by hospitals, and 6 were employed by related enterprises, with a one-time employment rate of 92%, and the employment direction was consistent with the goal of talent training. The employer's evaluation of the first graduates is that they have a good foundation, love to use their brains, be practical and practical, which further shows that the compound talents trained by this center meet the needs of society.
5. Conclusion
The experimental teaching center of biomedical engineering has been running for more than five years, and a new multi-stage, multi-level and interdisciplinary practical teaching system has been constructed, which embodies the characteristics of intersection, autonomy, openness, practicality and innovation. It has played an important role in experimental teaching, internship training, graduation project and graduation project, enhanced students' practical innovation ability, made contributions to promoting the cross-integration and development of different disciplines in the school, and formed its own distinctive characteristics. In the future, relying on provincial project support and academic advantages, the center will strive to become a first-class and influential center in Jiangsu Province? Jiangsu University Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center? .
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