Flipped classroom can improve students’ learning outcomes
Performance of the final examination in the present study suggested that the flipped classroom technique enhanced mastery of physiology content. Our results also showed that the final exam scores were correlated with students’ usual performance in the flipped classroom but not in the conventional teaching class, suggesting that the improvement of learning outcome may be due to its positive effects on students’ usual performance of flipped classroom teaching. The effectiveness of flipped classroom teaching has been increasingly investigated in medical education. Several studies proved that flipped classroom teaching was a successful approach to medical education for ophthalmology, nursing, and pharmacology etc. [The effectiveness of flipped classroom teaching can also be attributed to high-quality online resources [