Table 3 Curriculum of preventive medicine discipline in 1984 [25]

First

Health organization

To understand the organizational construction of primary healthcare organizations in urban and rural areas.

Second

Introduction of preventive medicine

To understand the general situation, nature and status of preventive medicine, and establish the strategy ideology of preventive medicine.

Third

Fourth

The first stage of health statistics and epidemiology

To learn statistical methods and epidemiological research methods to enable students to gradually establish the concept of quality, quantity and population, and the basic ideas and methods based on population research.

Fifth

Sixth

Internship

To understand the actual work of professional institutions and provide a basis for perceptual knowledge of follow-up professional courses.

Seventh

Health chemistry, data statistics and analysis, etc.

To continue to strengthen the learning of basic courses in order to provide the linkage between basic courses and professional courses.

Eighth

Ninth

Tenth

Finished bachelor thesis in the field

To train students to apply the theories, knowledge, and skills they have learned into the field to solve practical problems within a certain range.