Table 1 The results of questionnaire survey in foreign medical students
Categories | Items | NO. | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
Countries | India | 64 | 74.4% |
Srilanka | 11 | 12.8% | |
Malaysia | 6 | 7.0% | |
Thailand | 3 | 3.5% | |
Canada | 1 | 1.2% | |
Indonesia | 1 | 1.2% | |
Difficulties for students in taking history | Can’t understand local language | 66 | 76.7% |
Can’t speak Chinese Putong language | 32 | 37.2% | |
Being unfamiliar with the diseases of OB/GY | 3 | 3.5% | |
Others | 4 | 4.7% | |
Interested teaching method | Taking history from standardized patients | 55 | 64.0% |
Taking history from real patients | 27 | 31.4% | |
Practicing Chinese with teachers on courses | 9 | 10.5% | |
Watching videos on taking history in OB/GY | 3 | 3.5% | |
The efficacy of standardized patient on communication skill | Very useful | 45 | 52.3% |
Partly useful | 36 | 41.9% | |
Useless | 5 | 5.8% | |
Aspects that the standardized patient can help in | Training skill in collecting history | 75 | 87.2% |
Helping arranging the supplementary tests | 23 | 26.7% | |
Helping diagnosing the diseases | 29 | 33.7% | |
Helping treating the disease | 7 | 8.1% | |
In which language the students want the teachers speak | English | 55 | 64.0% |
Both English and Chinese | 33 | 38.4% | |
Chinese | 0 | 0.0% | |
Suggestion for improving the clinical teaching methods | More practice in taking history both from SP and real patients | 19 | 22.1% |
Get more help from teachers or others who are familiar with the Chinese or local language | 12 | 14.0% | |
Prepare real clinical patients who can speak English | 10 | 11.6% | |
Discuss the clinical cases again to make sure the students have collected the right information | 8 | 9.3% | |
Provide booklet containing the outline of history taking in Chinese, Pinyin and English | 7 | 8.1% |