Table 3 Curriculum of preventive medicine discipline in 1984 [25]
From: History and status quo of higher public health education in China
| Semester | Course | Note |
|---|---|---|
| First | Health organization | To understand the organizational construction of primary healthcare organizations in urban and rural areas. |
| Second | Introduction of preventive medicine | To understand the general situation, nature and status of preventive medicine, and establish the strategy ideology of preventive medicine. |
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Third Fourth | The first stage of health statistics and epidemiology | To learn statistical methods and epidemiological research methods to enable students to gradually establish the concept of quality, quantity and population, and the basic ideas and methods based on population research. |
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Fifth Sixth | Internship | To understand the actual work of professional institutions and provide a basis for perceptual knowledge of follow-up professional courses. |
| Seventh | Health chemistry, data statistics and analysis, etc. | To continue to strengthen the learning of basic courses in order to provide the linkage between basic courses and professional courses. |
| Eighth | Specialized courses, for example, the second stage of health statistics and epidemiology | |
| Ninth | Finished specialized courses | |
| Tenth | Finished bachelor thesis in the field | To train students to apply the theories, knowledge, and skills they have learned into the field to solve practical problems within a certain range. |