Abstract

Objective To evaluate the effect of preventive medicine community practice in eight-year program medical students. Methods 165 students and 49 teachers in Peking University Health Science Center took part in the preventive medicine community practice. The questionnaire and interviewing method were used to evaluate the teaching effectiveness. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis. Results 81. 9% of students considered that they benefit from the community practice. The community practice strengthened collectivity conception and the basic opinion in preventive medicine and increased the students’ thirst for knowledge. 45. 2% of students would like to do health education in patients and public, they thought they got much knowledge in subject design,collecting data,writing paper and analyzing data by computer. However, at least 90. 0% of students required to strengthen the knowledge of statistics. Some teachers pointed out the present problems according to the teaching process and put forward rational suggestions. Conclusions Preventive medicine community practice can strengthen the basic opinion in population health and enhance the basic skill in scientific research for the students,which may play some role in healing the schism between public health and clinical medicine. Key words: Preventive medicine; Community practice; Medical student; Teaching evaluation

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