Flipped classroom is an approach of  basic medical education  for undergraduate students

Background: With the development of medical education, new teaching method, such as flipped teaching model, was paid attention in the process. However, the sharing elaborate courses was used in the flipped teaching model in basic medicine has not been well investigated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate students’ learning effect of the histology and biochemistry between traditional teaching methods and flipped teaching method in the basic medicine classes to provide a scientific evidence of a new model establishment in the medical students’ education. Methods: 180 medical students at the Dalian Medical University were enrolled in the process. Hyperthyroidism was chosen for the content of this study. The participants were randomly allocated into the common teaching model group with the traditional lecture-based manner or the flipped teaching model group with the sharing elaborate courses manner. There are paper test, online test and lab test for histology and embryology after learning. The scores including total score, paper test score, online test score and lab test score were compared in two differernt teaching model and students were required to complete the questionnaire to evaluate the teaching model. Results: The scores of total, online and lab test with flipped teaching model were higher than those in common teaching model in histology and embryology. Additionally, the scores of total, paper and lab test with flipped teaching model were higher than those in common teaching model in biochemistry.The feedback of all items in the questionnaires were much positive. More students agreed and accepted the flipped teaching method could help to improve their performance. Conclusions: The medical students at Dalian Medical University can benefit from the flipped classroom teaching model, and a flipped classroom teaching model may well serve some subject areas such as histology and biochemistry. The flipped classroom approach can serve as a potentially exciting new modality for teaching model in the future.