The usability of WeChat as a mobile and interactive medium in student-centered medical teaching : WeChat As A Mobile And Interactive Medium In Medical Teaching

Long-term health management is challenging for the rapidly growing number of patients with chronic diseases. Smartphone interventions offer promising solutions. This article presents features of smartphone interventions for long-term chronic condition management, illustrating how these applications benefit patients with chronic diseases.

For nearly 40 years, outcome-based models have dominated programme evaluation in health professions education. However, there is increasing recognition that these models cannot address the complexities of the health professions context and studies employing alternative evaluation approaches that are appearing in the literature. A similar paradigm shift occurred over 50 years ago in the broader discipline of programme evaluation. Understanding the development of contemporary paradigms within this field provides important insights to support the evolution of programme evaluation in the health professions.

Students in an extensively student-centered biology class using multiple active-learning pedagogies and consistent formative assessment had greater content gains and more sophisticated views about learning biology compared with students in a moderately student-centered section using fewer active-learning pedagogies and less formative assessment.