integrated traditional Chinese and Western internal medicine;undergraduate education;combination with disease-symptom and syndrome;clinical thinking ability
An effective teaching method for integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine is discussed based on the current state. It is stressed that teaching must start from clinical practice with advantages of integrated medicine. Curriculum should be properly arranged. Teaching is based on clinical advantages of both medical systems in combination with disease-symptom-syndrome study to cultivate students~ clinical thinking ability. With case example and clinical study students"...