Compliance survey and analyses of the guidance of tutors and the requirements of the graduate students based on the students' views / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To survey on the graduate students about their own requirements, the guid-ance of tutors and the compliance, and put the gists for the educators and administrators. Methods Using the comprehensive questionnaires including Eugenie Creativity Test and Motivation Scale, the investigation surveyed on 900 graduate students in a medical university about their requirements and tutors' concerned aspects in their opinions, which was whether influenced by Intelligence (creativity), the Non-Intelligence factors (motivation) or not. Epidata 3.1 was used to input data of the investigation, and SPSS 16.0 statistical software was used to analyze it. The items were set as multiple-choices, and the percent of responses was used. Results The students thought the tutors' concerned aspects were mainly creative thinking [61.1%(1129/1847)], research methods [58.2%(1075/1847), specialty knowledge [41.8%(772/1847)], scientific spirit [35.4%(654/1847)], academic morality [24.3%(516/2124)] and book knowledge [5.4%(100/1847) ], while the graduate students paid more attention to its research methods [72.4%(1538/2124)], innovative thinking [64.0%(1359/2124), professional knowledge [60.0%(1274/2124)], the spirit of science [33.9%(720/2124)], academic morality [24.3%(516/2124)] and book knowledge [10.0%(212/2124)]. The percentages of research methods and specialty knowledge concerned by most of the students were higher than those tutors' con-cerned in the students' opinion. The percentages of specialty knowledge concerned by the students with high innovation and motivation were 56.2%(443/789) and 58%(345/595), which were higher than those concerned by the tutors 38.5%(255/662) and 29.4%(148/503). Conclusion In the students' opinion, tutors concerned more creative thinking, the students concerned more research methods, while they concerned similarly in the other aspects. For the students, the guidance of the tutors cannot still meet their study demands, espe-cially in research methods and specialty knowledge. Those with different motivations and innovations have different study requirements.