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Analysis Of the Path of Integrating Medical Humanities Education into Medical Virtual Simulation Experiments

Author(s)

Liujie Tang1,*, Kunpeng Dong1,*, Shaoping Kang1, Fucheng Wang2

Affiliation(s)

1School of Humanities and Management, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China 2Institute of Dentistry, Ural State Medical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia *Corresponding Author

Abstract

With the continuous advancement of digital teaching, virtual simulation experiments have become an important method of medical education. They can be used to achieve functions such as sharing high-quality resources, updating content, and cultivating students' practical skills. This article discusses the combination of "medical humanities education" and virtual simulation experiments. At present, the main problems of integrating medical humanities elements into virtual simulation experiments are: incomplete curriculum design, lack of guarantees, high costs, and lack of evaluation systems. The survey found that the coverage of medical humanities content in virtual simulation experiments is currently low, and teachers lack the cognition and ability to integrate humanities education into it. In order to better cultivate the medical humanistic spirit, it is necessary to strengthen humanistic care, ethics education, and communication skills training in the virtual simulation experiment process, so that medical technology and medical humanistic spirit can be integrated with each other, and talents with both professional skills and humanistic care can be cultivated to achieve high-quality and sustainable development of medical education.

Keywords

Virtual Simulation Experiment; Medical Humanities Education; Path; Integration of Medicine and Literature

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