Objective To investigate the employing units’ evaluation of the importance of the preventive medicine talents’competencies

Hainan province

in order to provide reference for the construction of competency model of Preventive Medicine and make suggestions for the cultivation of Preventive Medicine professionals in our province. Methods Random sampling methods were applied and a survey was conducted among 10 CDCs and Health Supervision Institutes with self-designed questionnaires through telephone interview

correspondence or field investigation. SPSS20.0 software was used to analyze the data. Results Teamwork

responsibility

preventive medicine knowledge

ability to prevent and control the diseases

ability to accept new methods and new techniques were thought very important by 94.4%

100%

72.2%

77.8%

72.2% of the surveyed units

respectively. However

only 5.6%、5.6%、33.3% and 38.9% of the surveyed units

respectively

considered that the computer applications ability

English proficiency

research approval and innovation ability were very important. Conclusion Colleges should impove the work of cultivating preventive medicine specialists to meet the employing units’ demands.