A survey of attitudes to and demands on internship in graduates majoring in preventive medicine in 6 colleges and universities in China
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2019.07.021
- VernacularTitle: 我国6所高校预防医学专业应届本科毕业生对实习的态度及需求研究
- Author:
Xiawen SU
1
;
Zheng DAI
2
;
Jing MA
2
;
Mengran LIU
2
;
Xiaoying SHAO
2
;
Yu JIANG
1
;
Huiming LUO
2
Author Information
1. School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China
2. Education and Training Department, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Preventive medicine;
Undergraduate education;
Internship
- From:Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2019;40(7):849-853
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To understand the internship of students majoring in preventive medicine in 6 colleges and universities in China, and provide reference suggestions for the improvement of internship arrangement.
Methods:By using the method of combined clustering and convenient sampling, the fifth grades students majoring in preventive medicine in six universities in the eastern, central and western China were surveyed by using questionnaires to collect the information of their attitudes (to) and suggestions for clinical and public health internships.
Results:A total of 596 students were surveyed. In terms of the benefits of clinical internship and public health internship, students who thought that the internship was fruitful accounted for >88%, and more students thought that reform is needed in clinical internship compared with public health internship. In clinical internship, the students through that the time arrangement was not appropriate enough (95, 39.58%), the content should be more detailed and in-depth (73, 30.42%) and the content did not conform to the professional direction (54, 22.50%). In public health internship, the students thought that the time arrangement was not appropriate (77, 45.56%), the content should be more detailed and standardized (65, 38.46%) and the types of internship bases should be more diversified (20, 11.83%).
Conclusions:The undergraduates majoring in preventive medicine felt to be benefited from clinical practice and public health internships and thought they are of necessity. At the same time, there are still many problems which needs to be improved in the two types of internships. It is necessary to make joint efforts from students, teachers, colleges and practice bases to promote the continuous improvement of undergraduate internship.
