Abstract:

The Outline of the "Healthy China 2030" Plan proposes that China's health undertakings should shift from treatment-centered to people's health-centered, and the importance of public health is becoming increasingly prominent. At present, the urgent task of public health education is to cultivate applied talents. However, certain deficiencies still exist in the practice teaching of the curriculum of public health that serves an important part of talent fostering, including insufficient construction of first-class practice teaching curriculums, imperfect dual-qualification training system for the instructors in practice teaching, weakened ideological and political education in the process of practice teaching, and simplification of evaluation methods for the practice teaching effect. In this regard, the Southern Medical University has launched a reform in the practice teaching curriculum in the undergraduates majoring in preventive medicine through constructing a diversified practical teaching system, establishing exchange mechanisms among teachers, strengthening the ideological and political education in the practice base, and establishing a multi-dimensional evaluation system for the practice teaching evaluation system, with an attempt to boost the post competency of the learners and provide a useful reference for cultivating the talents who meet the needs of social development and public health services.

Key words: Public health, Preventive medicine, Practice teaching, Application-oriented talents, Personnel training