预防医学专业学生对某起突发公共卫生事件知晓情况的分析

Objective To investigate preventive medical students' awareness for emergency public health event, to understand their attention extent to this event, their ability of linking theory with practice , analyzing and solving problems and to perform the teaching reform based on the findings of this study.Methods 423 undergraduates students of grade 1 to grade S and 104 postgraduates majoring in preventive medicine from an university were investigated by questionnaire anonymously. The total score of the questionnaire was 20. Results The average score of all the participants was 6.15 ±.95, and the postgraduates ' average score was 8. 53 ±3.26, significantly higher than that (5.56±.89) of the undergraduates'(P<0.001). The average score of the latter increased with grades, P<0.001. The corrective rates for most questions were low. Among all the participants, only 2. 1 percent considered three or more causes for having more death cases, only 1.9 percent obtained the information about the disease from the authoritative and professional medical websites and academic journals. Conclusions The preventive medical students were not aware of this emergency public health event completely and were not able to analyze it comprehensively. Moreover, the approaches to acquire the information were very limited. It is urgent to reform education system, renew educational thoughts and enhance the cultivation of contact between theory and practice capabilities.

The response and awareness of preventive medical students for an emergency public health event