Abstract In this paper, the dilemma that both reformed project-oriented curriculum and old ones co-existing has been analyzed, and this problem may be solved by the introduction and execution of project-oriented curriculum. In practice, a global undergraduate teaching-research program "distributed drug discovery (D3)" developed by teaching fellows in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis(IUPUI)has been incorporated into pharmaceutical-majored student laboratory curriculum at Zhejiang Pharmaceutical College. After continuous two-year follow-up investigation, it has been found that this type of laboratory curriculum is able to get students involved in the most advanced research project. As a result, students acquired good sense of achievement in the laboratory skills while their horizons for cutting edge technology in drug discovery have been broadened. More importantly, their motivation for learning and reasoning, the sense of innovation, scientific spirit, and their effort for team-work were greatly improved, which, in turn, will significantly benefit their career development. Therefore, the project-oriented curriculum which is well matched with the characteristics of the students is becoming an inexorable trend for the education reform of higher vocational colleges.
ZHOU Zi-Niu, XIE Jun-Li, PENG Xin. Exploration of Project-Oriented Laboratory Curriculum for Pharmaceutical-Majored Students[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2018, 39(14): 59-62.
