To study the effects of literature compilation interactive teaching mode in cultivating the scientific research thinking ability of neurosurgery postgraduates.

A total of 42 neurosurgery postgraduates from the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital were randomly divided into two groups: the literature compilation interactive teaching group (group A, n=21; literature compilation once a week) and control group (group B, n=21; regular training). The training lasted for half a year. Pre- and post-training, the two groups of neurosurgery postgraduates were assessed in the form of tender writing, respectively. Three experts were randomly selected from the expert database for blind review. The scientific research thinking ability of neurosurgery postgraduates was evaluated comprehensively from the aspects of topic selection, project basis, research content, research scheme and innovation points of these tenders. In addition, the two groups of neurosurgery postgraduates were respectively investigated on their satisfaction with the improvement of their scientific research thinking ability.

There was no significant difference in the baseline data and tender scores between the two groups before training (P>0.05). After such training, the aspects of topic selection, project basis, research content, research scheme and innovation points in the group A were significantly improved (P<0.05). In addition, tender scores in the group A was substantially higher than those in the group B (P<0.05). Moreover, the postgraduates in group A were significantly more satisfied with the improvement of their scientific research thinking ability than those in group B (P<0.05).

The literature compilation interactive teaching mode effectively improves the scientific research thinking ability of neurosurgery postgraduates.