ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1606919
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Importance of Faculty Development in Medical EducationView all 20 articles
College Students' Cognition and Attitude Toward Medical Knowledge Education after a Global Public Health Event
Provisionally accepted
- 1Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- 2Huaihua University, Huaihua, China
- 3Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- 4Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- 5Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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The past global public health event has heightened governmental and societal awareness of the importance of health and medical knowledge education. This study aims to investigate and compare the attitude and cognition of non-medical students and medical students toward medical knowledge education. A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was voluntarily completed by 304 university students recruited through the Wen-Juan-Xing online platform via WeChat QR codes or website links. The survey assessed participants’ cognition and attitudes regarding medical education. Results indicated that the vast majority of students recognized the importance of promoting medical knowledge education to disseminate practical medical skills and health knowledge. Medical students demonstrated significantly deeper understanding of general medical knowledge and greater proficiency in practical medical skills compared to non-medical students. Among non-medical students, 63.4% identified the lack of dedicated medical curricula and training as the primary barrier to their learning of medical knowledge, while only 53.4% expressed satisfaction with their institution’s current medical education offerings. These findings underscore the critical role of medical knowledge education in enhancing public health literacy by disseminating general medical knowledge and practical skills. Non-medical institutions should prioritize medical education reforms, including innovative medical curricular designs and teaching methodologies, to better align with both student and societal demands for healthcare competency.
Keywords: Medical knowledge education, public health event, Cognition and attitude, Medical and non-medical students, practical medical skills
Received: 06 Apr 2025; Accepted: 16 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Xiang, Cao, Wu, Chen, Chen, Tao and Jiang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Ting Jiang, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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