Some considerations on professional education and teaching reform for public health and preventive medicine

Following a brief overview of the historical development of undergraduate education of public health and preventive medicine in China's medical universities and colleges, this editorial points out existing issues and dominant challenges, and puts forward compelling demands for undergraduate education in preventive medicine, including in-depth integration with society and population, combined with practice, focusing on problem identificantion and problem solving based on population health, as well as developing undergraduate education programs, education syllabus and courses, construction of teaching materials and off-campus practice teaching bases.