Investigation of Chinese medical students' professional quality after COVID-19

With the ongoing improvement in people's living standards, people demand higher quality of medical service and medical staff, especially after the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Professional quality is an important embodiment of medical staff's comprehensive quality. Understanding the current situation of their professional quality will be beneficial in promoting reform and development of medical education and practice.

This study aimed to understand the situation of medical students' professional quality after COVID-19 as well as to provide reference for deepening the reform of medical students' professional quality education.

557 medical students from mainland in China were participated in by questionnaire through Internet. The questionnaire used in this investigation was adapted from prior studies to fit the research objective (Ren et al., 2019).

Score of medical students' professional quality was moderate, and there were some deficiencies: their cognition of the professional quality was insufficient, the development of professional quality was unbalanced, and curriculum of professional quality education needs to be optimized. In addition, parents' educational level was correlated with medical students' cognition of professional quality.

Professional quality education with professional spirit and humanism at its core should be deepened furtherly, and teaching reform should be deepened to promote the all-around development of medical students' professional quality. Meanwhile, it's necessary to integrate professional quality education throughout the whole process of medical education, strengthen the capacity to build the humanistic quality of medical teachers, optimize the teaching mode and strengthen the collaborative-education function between family and medical colleges.