ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Application of Sandwich-based PBL teaching on Medical Immunology workshop
Provisionally accepted
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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The Medical Immunology course is a basic and continuously updating medical course for medical students. As this course involves complex concepts, students are often frustrated by the amount of detailed material and find it hard to link the various knowledge points exactly and entirely. More effective and more engaging pedagogy beyond traditional didactic approaches is needed to drive students' attention, understanding and memorizing more knowledge of medical immunology. In this article, we illustrate how Sandwich-based PBL approach is applied in a 4-class workshop to this course and how to assess its advantages by examination scores and questionnaire. This Sandwich-based PBL approach could significantly improve students' self-learning and critical thinking capabilities, communication skills and learning interests. We need to make great efforts to maximize the advantages of the approach and to extend this approach to more departments or more basic courses.
Keywords: immunology, medical, Medical Education, Method, PBL, Questionnaire survey, Sandwich-based, Teaching
Received: 01 Sep 2025; Accepted: 15 Dec 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 He, Cheng, Zheng and Lei. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Fang Zheng
Ping Lei
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