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Frontiers in medicine · 5d
Randomized trialFrontiers in medicine · 2026

Flipped classroom integrated with team-based learning enhances surgical skills in ophthalmology residency training: a randomized controlled trial.

Zhuoqiong Wang, Ji Xu, Xinxin Hu … Juntao Zhang
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OphthalmologyRandomized trial

Flipped classroom plus team-based learning boosted residents' total surgical skill scores versus lectures.

Flipped classroom integrated with team-based learning enhances surgical skills in ophthalmology residency training: a randomized controlled trial.

Zhuoqiong Wang … Juntao Zhang
Frontiers in medicine · 2026
Background

Standardized ophthalmology residency training emphasizes competency-based education, with fine surgical skills representing a key challenge.

Purpose

Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the application value of this novel teaching method in surgical skills training for ophthalmology residents.

Methods

Twenty residents who underwent standardized ophthalmology training at the Affiliated People's Hospital of Ningbo University from January 2026 to March 2026 were enrolled and randomly divided into an experimental group ( n = 10) and a control group ( n = 10).

n = 10
d = 5.29
Results
d = 5.29
Total practical surgical skill score was far higher with the new teaching method.
n = 10
More results

There were no significant differences in pre-training theoretical scores between the two groups ( p > 0.05).

After training, the theoretical performance of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group ( p < 0.05, Cohen's d = 0.95).

More results

The questionnaire survey showed that the satisfaction level of the experimental group in the three dimensions of "improvement of operational ability", "enthusiasm of teachers" and "overall self-evaluation" was higher than that of the control group ( p < 0.05).

There was no significant difference between the two groups in the remaining dimensions ( p > 0.05).

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Conclusion · 1 of 2

This study confirms that the flipped classroom combined with team-based learning teaching method can significantly improve the performance of ophthalmic residency skills training, and its teaching effect is significantly better than that of the traditional model.

Conclusion · 2 of 2

It is an innovative teaching mode with high application value in ophthalmology surgical skills training.

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