Objective: To evaluate the teaching effect of PBL and CBL in ECG teaching. Methods: The
clinical medical students were divided into two groups. One group adopted the traditional teaching
method, the other group adopted the new teaching method, that is, the combination of PBL and CBL. The
teaching effect was compared in three aspects: the score of ECG theory examination, the score of ECG
interpretation and the students’ evaluation about teaching effect. Results: compared with the traditional
teaching method, the combination of PBL and CBL teaching method had better teaching effect. The score
of ECG analysis in the new teaching method group was significantly higher than that in the traditional
teaching group (p<0.05). In the six items of arousing students’ interest, improving clinical thinking ability,
ECG reading ability, cultivating team spirit, cultivating self-learning ability and teachers’ teaching method
satisfaction, the scores of students in the new teaching method group were significantly higher than those
in the traditional teaching group (all p<0.05).
Conclusion: The combination of PBL and CBL teaching method is based on clinical cases. The students’
discussion and analyse of groups can fully mobilize the students’ initiative in learning, and has a good
teaching effect in the electrocardiographic teaching.