Practice of independent designed experiment in occupational health and occupational medicine experimental teaching

Most of the current experiments are obsolete and verified, the students are not interested in and the experiments are out of touch with the actual work. These are the common problems in the experiment teaching of occupational health and occupational medicine. By taking the students who majored in preventive medicine as the subjects, this study aimed to explore the effects of independent designed experiment teaching mode, which was based on dividing the groups before class, choosing the projects by students themselves, deciding the design of the program via the discussion of teacher and students and doing the experimental reports and sharing the experience. The results showed that, in the premise of the preliminary master of the theory and basic skills of occupational health and occupational medicine, carrying out inde-pendent designed experiments in the last three weeks of semester, to a certain extent, could arouse students' interest in learning, cultivate their abilities of independent thinking, practice, problem analysis and solu-tion, and team cooperation. However, restricted by lack of teachers, inadequate equipment and high cost and other factors, this teaching mode is only suitable for small class. Key words: Occupational health and occupational medicine; Independent designed experiment; Teaching reform; Preventive medicine