Investigation on the academic activities and campus life of Fudan University's first session of clinical medicine (eight-year program) graduates

Objective To understand the perceiving,cognition and evaluation of academic activities and campus life among the first batch of eight-year program clinical medicine graduates in order to refine the eight-year program and to get better recruitment plan,teaching methods,culture objective and career preparation.Methods Questionnaire was conducted among all 57 students of the pioneer batch of eight-year clinical medicine program enrolled in 2004,including students' basic information,feeling of studying at stages of general education,basic medicine,clinical medicine and professional research as well as the evaluation on the professional training mode.Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data.Results 68.4％ students felt that the main emphasis and core of the program should focus on clinical knowledge and skills; 26.3％ students had little interest in the eight-year clinical program; 26.3％ of students did not like this way of teaching/training,and 33.3％ students were pessimistic about their career future.Conclusion Improvement in the recruitment and cultivation methods will increase teaching quality and students' satisfaction of the course. Key words: Eight-year clinical medicine program; Study and life