Status quo of health management undergraduate education:Celebrating 40 years of undergraduate professional education in health management in China
Objective To analyze and evaluate the quality and level of the development of undergraduate education in health management by investigating the current situation of the education.Methods The network questionnaire survey method was applied to survey 61 colleges and universities across the nation on the current sta-tus and development trend of undergraduate education in health management from five dimensions,namely,basic information,enrollment and cultivation,professional competence and characteristics,employment,and discipline construction.Results At present,the enrollment scale of undergraduate health management majors in China is gradually expanding,and the cultivation still needs to enhance for the reserve of talents.The professional charac-teristics have been significantly improved,but the construction of faculty and practice teaching still needs to be strengthened.The employment of graduates is good in general,but the differences among institutions are still sig-nificant.The professional discipline system tends to be improved,but the proportion of high-level discipline con-struction is insufficient.Conclusions It is suggested to build a whole-process management system of enrollment-cultivation-employment to optimize the health management talent training,to optimize the structure of the fac-ulty and strengthen the role of the practice teaching base,to establish a mechanism of teaching synergy to improve the quality of talent training,and to strengthen the construction of high-level disciplines for building a four-in-one model of discipline construction.
Health managementUndergraduate educationProfessional competenceProfessional char-acteristicsDiscipline constructionHigh-quality development