Overview

As excellent professionals, not only should they be able to provide treatment and save lives, but also take precautions to improve the population health. We hoped that after completing this course, students can firmly establish the concept of ‘prevention first’, master the basic knowledge and skills of preventive medicine, and become doctors who can both diagnose and treat patients and develop personalized clinical prevention services to ‘promote the health of all’.

The course includes two parts: Introduction and Clinical Preventive Services. The introduction includes the basic concepts of preventive medicine, determinants of health, Health Ecological Model, prevention at three levels and corresponding strategies. Clinical prevention services are the most relevant content for clinical medical students. After introducing the basic concepts and contents of clinical preventive services, this course focuses on teaching process and skills on how to develop individualized clinical preventive services. It mainly introduces the basic individual behavior theory and behavior intervention principles, as well as the three types of behavior intervention methods including: tobacco control, promoting physical activity and balanced diet . Principles of early detection and treatment of diseases was also introduced as the secondary prevention.

Syllabus

Chapter1 Introduction

Section 1 The significance of clinical medical students studying preventive medicine
Section 2 The concept of preventive medicine
Section 3 Concept of health
Section 4 The determinants of health
Section 5 Health Ecology Model
Section 6 Prevention at three levels and corresponding strategies
Section 7 People-oriented integrated service model

Chapter 2 Clinical prevention services

Section 1 Introduction to basic conception of clinical prevention services
Section 2 The content of clinical prevention services
Section 3 Methods and principles for determining clinical preventive services
Section 4 Risk factor collection and health risk assessment
Section 5 Development of health maintenance plan

Chapter 3 Health behavior intervention

Section 1 Health behavior and its influencing factors
Section 2 Theory of Health Behavior Change
Section 3 Health Belief Model
Section 4 Transtheoretical model
Section 5 Social Cognitive Theory
Section 6 Health promotion

Chapter 4 Control of tobacco use

Section 1 Introduction of tobacco
Section 2 The harm of smoking
Section 3 The benefits and misunderstandings of quitting smoking
Section 4 Smoking intervention and drug use
Section 5 Tobacco control strategy of populatin
Section 6 Situational plays

Chapter 5 Physical activity promotion

Section 1 Iintroduction of physical activity
Section 2 Formation of modern physical activity patterns
Section 3 Physical activity and chronic diseases: exercise prescriptions

Chapter 6 Rational nutrition guidance

Section 1 Proteins and lipids
Section 2 Carbohydrates and energy
Section 3 Mineral substance
Section 4 Vitamin
Section 5 Reference intake of nutrients
Section 6 Rational nutrition

Chapter 7 Early detection of disease and implementation of secondary prevention

Section 1 Prevention at three levels and the significance of secondary prevention
Section 2 Minimum criteria for disease screening - disease
Section 3 Minimum criteria for disease screening - screening test
Section 4 Minimum criteria for disease screening - health care system and ethical
Section 5 Determine the frequency of screening and the items included in a screening
Section 6 Basic procedures for implementing screening and principles for dealing with the abnormal screening results