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Educational application of WeChat in ophthalmic clinic practice

FAN Wen-ying   

  1. Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China
  • Received:2016-01-21 Online:2016-05-25 Published:2016-06-22
  • Contact: Email: fanwenying2015@163.com E-mail:fanwenying2015@163.com

Abstract: WeChat, a newly-developed social communicating software, could overcome the deficiency in traditional clinic education practice and promote the efficiency in clinic teaching by building up an bridge of information between the teachers and students through message publishing, real time teaching of classical cases, real time communication among doctors, and tele-consultation of intractable cases. Therefore, application of WeChat could improve the quality of teaching in clinic practice and facilitate the training for the interns.

Key words: WeChat, ophthalmogic teaching