Preventive medicine is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, belonging to public health and preventive medicine.
This major is trained to meet the needs of the development of medical and health undertakings in China. Have good professional ethics, innovative spirit, practical ability and learning ability, and master the basic theories, basic knowledge and skills of basic medicine, clinical medicine and preventive medicine. Can be competent in public health related fields such as disease prevention and control, disease prevention and health promotion, and engage in public health practice, disease prevention and control, public health security and so on.
Main course:
Preventive medicine includes pathological anatomy, physiology, psychiatry, infectious disease theory, occupational hygiene, epidemiological practice, health microbiology, basic toxicology, health physical and chemical examination, and maternal and child health care.
Educational development:
Preventive medicine is gradually developed and improved with the establishment of modern medicine, statistics and microbiology. Preventive medicine was founded in Europe after the three major discoveries of natural science in the19th century. At that time, there was no specialized preventive medicine education and talents specialized in preventive medicine, but ordinary medical personnel served as them.
Until the 20th century after the First World War, due to the lack of professionals to solve population health problems, developed countries in Europe and America and Russia set up preventive and social medical departments and public health departments. In medical colleges, it is mainly for students and post-graduation education. After World War II, the role of public health doctors has been paid more attention, and European and American countries and Russia have established special public health colleges.
The specialty of preventive medicine in China was founded in the turbulent war years. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a large number of refugees and wounded appeared, which made infectious diseases and infectious diseases widespread. The medical schools of comprehensive universities in big cities such as Beiping, Shanghai and Chongqing under the Kuomintang rule set up departments of public health and enrolled a small number of public health students.
China Medical University was founded in Yan 'an, a liberated area, on 1940. It also set up preventive medicine specialty and trained a group of public health professionals, which laid the foundation for the development of preventive medicine education after the founding of the People's Republic of China.