Integrated Teaching Reform Of "Health Management" Course Competition In Chinese Medicine Majors In Higher Vocational Colleges
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https://doi.org/10.56294/mw2025414Keywords:
Integrated Teaching Reform, Health Management, Course Competition, Chinese Medicine Majors, Higher Vocational CollegesAbstract
Introduction: China's rapidly growing sub-health population requires enhanced health management. Vocational skills competitions improve professionals' technical abilities, soft skills, and comprehensive quality through simulated real-work scenarios.
Methods:Target population refers to a collection of objects or elements related to this study (Buskirk 2019). According to Garver and Mentzer (1999) and Sekaran (2013), the sample size should be more than 200 to avoid any non-convergence.Thus, the sample size for this research will be 560 instructors and 155 administrators from Chinese medicine majors of 10 higher vocational colleges in Guangdong province to ensure the data is reliable and effective.
Results:This study identified five key components (policy support, resource integration, teacher development, student participation, and reform implementation) for integrating Health Management competitions in TCM vocational colleges. All components showed significant positive correlations with successful reform. The structural equation model confirmed these factors directly enhance competition integration. Based on findings, 41 specific managerial guidelines were developed across these five dimensions to optimize the teaching reform.
Conclusions:1)The components of this study included policy and institutional support (PIS),integration of teaching resources(ITR) ,teacher team building (TTB), student participation mechanism (SPM), integrated teaching reform of "Health Management" course competition(HM).2)The policy and institutional support(PIS),integration of teaching resources(ITR),teacher team building(TTB),student participation mechanism(SPM) positively affected integrated teaching reform of "Health Management" course competition (HM).3)There are 8 measures for Policy and institutional support(PIS), 9 measures for Integration of teaching resources(ITR),8 measures for Teacher team building(TTB), and 9 measures for Student participation mechanism(SPM),7 measures for Integrated teaching reform of "Health Management" course competition(HM).
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