Survey on public health education for undergraduate clinical students in 11 medical colleges and universities / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives To learn about current public health education for undergraduate clinical students and to provide some references for developing suitable teaching way in the further.Methods Public health education for undergraduate clinical students in 11 medical colleges and universities and teachers' opinions on it were surveyed with the self-made questionnaire.Quantitative data were analyzed with descriptive statistic method.Results All the surveyed colleges and universities opened public health curriculum for undergraduate clinical students and 10 colleges and universities made public health course to be compulsory.The teaching contents were varied in different colleges and universities.Teachers who gave the public health courses proposed some suggestions on its reform.Conclusions Public health education for clinical students in different colleges and universities has both unity and diversity.It should develop new teaching model based on the training goal of public health education for undergraduate clinical students.