Experience Sharing: Elsevier Digital Medical Education Tools to Help Clinical Teaching
The PBL Challenge to Expand Global Medical Horizons has recently concluded. We had the honor to invite Feng Lili, Deputy Director of the Emergency Department at Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, who was awarded gold prize in the faculty group, to share her experiences utilizing Elsevier’s digital education tools.
“Having access to a wealth of teaching resources and convenient digital tools allow our team to achieve better outcomes with less effort.”
The current teaching methods of PBL and the flipped classroom model, which successfully engage students, emphasize the importance of independent work prior to class commencement.
Osmosis, an extensive platform rich in concise and focused video resources, ensures that the content presented is scientifically accurate and authoritative. Students can save significant energy that would otherwise be expended in searching for reliable online resources. Furthermore, our undergraduate teaching approach, spanning eight or more years, integrates not just basic case studies but also pertinent knowledge points, bridging the gap between anatomy and physiology.
Complete Anatomy, another valuable tool, provides an array of 3D models and animations, serving as effective teaching aids. These resources make the course more tangible, enabling students to grasp concepts more intuitively and clearly.
“Elsevier’s digital medical education products will significantly enhance the convenience of patient education in the future.”
While digital medical education tools now allow us to educate patients about their condition in terms of time and equipment accessibility, their widespread use is still not mainstream. For instance, Complete Anatomy combines traditional anatomical maps with 3D technology to simulate the inflammatory and physiological changes in the human body due to various diseases.
By presenting this information through images or video animations, we aim to provide patients with more tailored explanations, ensuring they can see these changes with clarity.
According to the “Doctor of the Future White Paper” released by Elsevier, it is anticipated that by 2028, there will be less face-to-face communication between clinicians and patients compared to today. Furthermore, 55% of respondents believe that telemedicine will emerge as the primary method for routine examinations within two to three years. It is anticipated that Elsevier’s digital products for medical education will significantly enhance the convenience of patient education at that time.
“Pick up the knowledge of disease and physiology through more medical education tools, and then combined with clinical practice, a closed loop of knowledge learning is formed.”
For residents, the focus is on clinical work, not in the classroom. It makes them learn knowledge with fragmented time. They find problems in the clinic, consult the papers, and then ask for teachers with problems to discuss. With the increase of medical practice time, they may forget some points such as pathophysiology.
Nowadays, students prefer watching videos, which makes them feel that it is interesting. It’s a big advantage for Elsevier products. Moreover, the guidelines are updated, and the cases are also updated. If we often set the same questions for residents in clinical practice, they cannot reflect the advanced nature.
What’s more, the purpose of testing now is not only to memorize some knowledge points, but to examine students’ comprehensive analysis and application of knowledge points in the form of cases. Pick up the knowledge of disease and physiology through the aid of more medical education tools, and then combined with clinical practice, a closed loop of knowledge learning is formed.
As a bridge from basic knowledge to clinical practice, PBL can understand and master the medical knowledge more deeply and apply it to the actual clinical situation. This way of learning not only helps students consolidate their theoretical knowledge, but also cultivates their ability to solve practical problems. We look forward to seeing more exciting and clinically valuable cases in the PBL competition in the future. We also hope that Elsevier medical education products can be applied by more teachers, students and doctors in universities and hospitals, providing new ideas and methods for medical research and treatment.
The introduction of Dr. Feng Lili
Dr. Feng Lili is currently the Deputy Chief Physician and Deputy Director of the Emergency Department at Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital. Her professional journey began in 2003, when she joined the Emergency Department of Peking University First Hospital. She further enhanced skills in 2013 by visiting and studying at Sutter Health Group Hospital in the United States. In 2014, she transferred to Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, where she has been actively involved in emergency rescue and treatment for years.
Since 2014, Dr. Feng has held the position of teaching attending physician in the Department of Emergency and Intensive Care, earning her numerous accolades as an outstanding teaching teacher and teaching manager. Her dedication and commitment to education were further recognized in 2020, when she completed the first Tsinghua-Harvard Medical Teacher Training Program and was awarded its completion certificate. Presently, she serves as a member of both the Hospital Medical Education Committee and the clinical teaching supervision expert group.
