【Abstract】Objective Provide improvement measures and recommendations to improve preventive medicine’s clinical internship . Methods 88 third grade students and 82 fifth grade students of preventive medicine in Sichuan University were surveyed.Then input 81 valid questionnaires of the third grade and 79 valid questionnaires of the fifth grade into EpiData
and SPSS was used to analyze the data. Then
6 staffs from the CDC and 2 professional teachers were in-depth interviewed and recognize the interview record to form a summary. Results The third grade preventive medicine students who are preparing to take part in the clinical internship know little about the clinical internship ,which accounts for only 0% and 92.59% (75) think that the internship content should be different with the clinical medicine
in the meantime 44.44% (36) think chief resident should be the internship teacher.For the fifth grade preventive medicine students who have finished the clinical internship
only 3.80% (3)is very satisfied with clinical internship;84.81% (67) are considered to take into account the professional characteristics of the clinical practice; meanwhile
the satisfaction of the knowledge or the ability learned from the clinical internship as well as the help in the post-graduation job is only 8.86% (7); the employer's and professional teachers consider that the clinical internship program of the preventive medicine student should be suitable for prevention medical students
at the same time
preventive medicine students should focus on learning clinical knowledge related to disease prevention .Conclusion The clinical internship of preventive medicine needs further improvements
such as adjusting practice contents
learning teacher
management methods to form a clinical practice system characterized by preventive medicine so as to meet the needs of employers and students.