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.

The entire teaching content is carried out in accordance with the teaching principles step by step, so that students can comprehensively understand the factors affecting health and the knowledge and skills of implementing preventive services in practice, and understand the research methods of the occurrence and development of diseases in the population and the evaluation of the risk factors affecting the health. By taking early preventive services and implementing clinical prevention measures, the purpose of disease prevention and treatment can be achieved, and the concept of ‘Prevention First’ and the understanding of ‘Environment-Population-Health’ model of medical students are deepened.

   Any zero-based learner with an interest in preventive medicine can participate in the study.

       Editor-in-chief of Hua Fu. The 7th edition of Preventive Medicine. Beijing: People's Medical Publishing House. 2018