EC Dental Science

Objective: This article aims to evaluate the effect of student standardized patients combined with problem-based learning teaching method in standardized training of general dental residents.

Methods: 48 general dental residents in the 2021 grade at the first affiliated hospital of Jinan University were selected and randomly divided into a control group and an experimental group. The teacher in the experimental group used the traditional teaching mode, which consisted of the conventional clinical teaching method, small lectures and case discussion. In contrast, the teacher in the experimental group used a hybrid teaching model based on student standardized patients (SSP) combined with PBL teaching. After the learning was completed, the departmental rotation examination scores of the residents in two groups were compared. Besides, a questionnaire was adopted to investigate the residents' evaluation of the teaching effectiveness, and the results were analyzed through SPSS software.

Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups on theoretical knowledge assessment. The scores of the experimental group's medical record writing and consultation assessment were higher, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The clinical competence of residents in the experimental group was higher than that in the control group, and residents had a higher evaluation on the application effect of student standardized patients combined with problem-based learning teaching method.

Conclusion: The application of SSP combined with PBL teaching mode in the standardized training of general dental residents improves the residents' independent learning ability, clinical thinking ability, doctor-patient communication ability, and operational ability.

Keyword: Problem-Based Learning; Standardized Patients; Educational Methodology; Standardized Residency Training; Randomized Control Trial

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