Abstract

The mental health of medical postgraduates is not only related to personal development, but also related to the future of China’s health system. The purpose of study is to analyze the necessity of the mental health education for medical graduates and the existing problems as well as to probe the effective methods of the mental health education of medical postgraduate. Questionnaire is implemented among students in four medical universities in Hubei and Hunan Provinces. The result concludes the problems of medical students’ mental health education, such as insufficient emphasis, medicalization, singularity and poor relevance. The study argues that it is necessary to explore the effective ways of mental health education for medical graduates in the following aspects: (1) to raise awareness and to enhance the awareness of mental health education of medical postgraduates; (2) to scientifically locate and clarify the relationship between mental health education and medical education; (3) to integrate resources to build medical student’s mental health education system; (4) to build a platform to expand the medical graduate students mental health education channels.

Highlights

  • Recent years have witnessed the increasingly expanded enrollment of graduates in China, which greatly challenges the management of graduate students’ education

  • The majority of the research on mental health education for medical postgraduates remains at the levels of internal and external causes, representations, macroscopic and microscopic solutions, especially the research on probing into the interference factors that lead to mental crisis which primarily results in their age and the surroundings such as bad environmental adaptation, academic and employment pressure and anxiety and depression caused by interpersonal relationship [1], the interplay and contradiction between mental health and job burnout [2], gender difference [3], personality [4,5,6], personality of neuroticism and psychoticism [7,8], family factor [9,10]

  • Based on the results of questionnaires conducted among the medical students in Hubei and Hunan Province, this paper is to analyze the necessity of the mental health education for medical graduates and the existing problems as well as to probe the effective methods of the mental health education of medical postgraduate

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Introduction

Recent years have witnessed the increasingly expanded enrollment of graduates in China, which greatly challenges the management of graduate students’ education. Based on the results of questionnaires conducted among the medical students in Hubei and Hunan Province, this paper is to analyze the necessity of the mental health education for medical graduates and the existing problems as well as to probe the effective methods of the mental health education of medical postgraduate. It attempts to probe the effective methods of the mental health education of medical postgraduate. The emergent mental problems afflicting medical postgraduates and accompanying suggested countermeasures are to be discussed

The Necessity of Mental Health Education for Medical Postgraduates
No Enough Emphasis Is Put on the Mental Health Education
Education in Medical Universities are Inclined to Medicalization
The Mental Health Education Is Lowly Targeted
The Effective Methods of Mental Health Education for Medical Postgraduates
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