Objective To investigate the status of communication skills among medical students in order to provide targeted and operational interventions. Methods We designed the questionnaire ‘Questionnaire investigating the status of medical students’ communication skills’ to investigate the status of communication skills of medical students of the West China Clinical College. The sample was extracted by the way of stratified sampling. Results We put out 570 questionnaires and received 548 completed questionnaires. There was a statistical difference between students who came from the city and countryside in terms of communication skills. There was also a statistical difference between students with different backgrounds in communication skills. Conclusion ① Medical students have lots of advantages in interpersonal communication, but there are also lots of defects in their skill set. ② Medical students have been aware of the necessity of learning the basic theories of interpersonal communication to improve the physician-patient relationship in the future. ③ It has become a trend to carry out interpersonal education in medical universities. ④ Medical colleges need to integrate internal and external resources, professional education, moral education, and the construction of campus culture to foster medical students with good interpersonal skills.
Objective
To investigate and compare the demands of dosage forms and specifications of essential medicine for children in different levels of medical institutions, so as to provide references for selection of essential medicines for children by levels of medical institutions.
Methods
In 13 provinces or municipalities, 104 medical institutions, including tertiary, secondary and primacy medical institutions, were investigated by questionnaires. Kinds of drugs, dosage forms, requirement types and requirement levels of drugs were analyzed and compared in different levels of medical institutions.
Results
Tertiary medical institutions had higher demands than other levels of medical institutions for the number of drugs types, dosage forms and level of demand on each drug (P < 0.05), secondary medical institutions were higher than primacy medical institutions (P < 0.05), but community health service centers were the same as township health centers.
Conclusion
The demands of dosage forms and specifications of essential medicine for children in different levels of medical institutions are different. So future studies should develop the essential medicines list for children depend on different levels of care.
Objective To understand the demands of residents in postgraduate medical education for faculty doctors and provide useful information to teaching hospitals. Methods Two hundred residents were interviewed through questionnaires. Results Demands for faulty doctors were consistent in the following 5 fields: faculty’s synthetic diathesis, adaptability to social and medical changes, information management and research, cooperation and teamwork, and innovation and continuous self-improvement (Pgt;0.05). However, with regard to the faculty doctors’ professionalism, teaching models and atmosphere, the demands of residents in the different stages of postgraduate medical education differed significantly (Plt;0.05). Conclusion Teaching hospitals continuously improve faculty doctors’ abilities and pay much attention to residents’ role transformation.
Objective To re-estimate price elasticity of different income groups’ demand for cigarette in terms of the lastest national tobacco consumption data and provide policy-makers with evidence to make decision on public policy of tobacco control. Methods A total of 16 056 adults of different income were surveyed in 27 provinces in 2002 and the data analyzed by using two-part model (logistic and log-linear model). Results We found that the demand elasticities were -0.589, -0.234, -0.017 and 0.247 for the poor group, low income group, middle income group and high income group, respectively. Conclusions Increasing tobacco tax will result in decreasing more cigarette consumption of lower income groups than higher groups, bearing more taxation of higher income groups than lower income groups, therefore tobacco taxation is not regressive.
Objective To analyze the scientific research output of West China Hospital of Sichuan University from 2015 to 2020, so as to evaluate the effectiveness of new scientific research management model. Methods From January 2018, a series of management measures were introduced, including improving research incentive policies, integrating and supporting resources, constructing a scientific quantitative research performance evaluation system, and establishing an information-based research service model. The changes of scientific research output before (2015-2017) and after (2018-2020) the implementation of the management measures were analyzed to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the management model. Results A total of 10141 high-quality research papers were seized and 2311 research projects were approved. After the implementation of the measures, the absolute number of papers published and projects approved increased significantly. In terms of high-quality papers published after the implementation of the measures, the increase rate reached 46.80%, among which the number of interdisciplinary papers increased by 116.05%, the number of reviews increased by 96.13%, the numbers of papers published in Area 2 and Area 1 increased by 114.67% and 75.00%, respectively, and the number of co-author papers increased by over seven times. In terms of scientific research projects approved after the implementation of the measures, the number of projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) increased by 21.03%, and the number of provincial and ministerial projects increased by 110.17%, with the people in charge becoming younger. The number of principal investigators of NSFC increased by 1.67 times. The number of projects managed by intermediate and undetermined professional titles increased by 64.71% and 68.63%, respectively. The number of projects approved by youth and general fund increased by 30.26% and 14.16% respectively. The number of people in charge of provincial and ministerial projects increased by 1.45 times. The number of projects managed by deputy senior and intermediate titles increased by 1.64 times and 1.54 times, respectively. Key research and development projects, key projects, international cooperation projects, and basic application projects saw a significant increase. Conclusions After the implementation of management measures, the number and overall level of research papers have been improved, and the cross-cooperation between clinical and basic research has been gradually started. The number of projects approved increased significantly, and the project leaders tended to be younger. The high-quality cultivation and continuous growth of scientific research talents achieved initial results.
