Qualitative and quantitative research of preventive medicine's clinical internship
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-1485.2017.07.004
- VernacularTitle:预防医学专业临床实习的定量与定性研究
- Author:
Xiaoting ZHOU
;
Zunzhen ZHANG
- Keywords:
Preventive medicine;
Clinical internship;
Questionnaire;
In-depth interview
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2017;16(7):661-665
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To provide improvement measures and recommendations to improve preven-tive medicine's clinical internship. Methods 88 third-year students and 82 fifth-year students of preventive medicine in Sichuan University were surveyed. Then 81 valid questionnaires of the third grade and 79 valid questionnaires of the fifth grade were input into EpiData, and SPSS 17.0 was used to analyze the data. Then, in-depth interviews were conducted among 6 employees and 2 professional teachers of the employing units, and the interview records were organized to form an interview summary. Results The third-year preventive medicine students who are preparing to take part in the clinical internship know little about the clinical in-ternship, which accounts for only 0％and 92.59％(75) think that the internship content should be different with the clinical medicine, in the meantime 44.44％ (36) think chief resident should be the internship teacher. For the fifth-year preventive medicine students who have finished the clinical internship, only 3.80％(3) is very satisfied with clinical internship;84.81％(67) are considered to take into account the pro-fessional characteristics of the clinical practice; meanwhile, the satisfaction of the knowledge or the ability learned from the clinical internship as well as the help in the post-graduation job is only 8.86％ (7); the employer's and professional teachers consider that the related clinical internship program of the preventive medicine student should be suitable for prevention medical students , and at the same time , preventive medicine students should focus on learning clinical knowledge related to disease prevention. Conclusion The clinical internship of preventive medicine needs further improvements, such as adjusting practice con-tents, learning teacher, management methods to form a clinical practice system characterized by preventive medicine so as to meet the needs of employers and students.
