Zhu Shuai, Wang Juejin, Han Ying, Du Jun
Department of Physiology, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211166, Jiangsu, China.
BMC Med Educ. 2025 Jul 1;25(1):923. doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-07517-9.
China has become a new hot spot for foreign students in recent years. The reform of educational management is crucial to improving the quality of teaching and supporting student learning; however, there is a lack of comprehensive data documenting the current state of management in medical programs for foreign students in China.
This study conducted a survey among international students enrolled on medical and surgical bachelor's degree programs (MBBS) from Nanjing medical university in China. A total of 67 valid questionnaires were collected in this study, including 30 international and 37 Chinese sophomores. The questionnaires focused on the teaching quality, operation system, as well as the attitude to campus life and communication modes of those students.
The international student group's mean satisfaction with teaching quality was 2.833 ± 0.348 on a five-point scale, much lower than the native students' mean score of 3.783 ± 0.417 (p < 0.05). Interestingly, although the impact of the international students' attitude toward course attraction was similar to that recorded for the Chinese students, they were more unsatisfied with the teacher's level, the delays in understand what the instructor teaches in class, the failure of accept the teacher's teaching methods, and the insufficient teaching materials that meet students' needs. Similarly, the international students expressed less satisfaction than the Chinese students with operation system for education (2.700 ± 0.337 vs. 3.388 ± 0.392, p < 0.05). We also noticed that the international students were shown less adapt to study and life in university than their native counterparts (3.833 ± 1.256 vs. 4.378 ± 0.689, p < 0.05). For international students, the main reasons for this could be that there was substantially lower communication with Chinese teachers and take less part in cultural activities.
Although the number of international students studying in China were increasing rapidly, international students are less satisfied with medical education management than Chinese students. This study is a microcosm of the current situation of medical education for the international students in China, hoping to improve the quality of their medical education.
近年来，中国已成为吸引外国留学生的新热点。教育管理改革对于提高教学质量和支持学生学习至关重要；然而，缺乏全面的数据记录中国外国留学生医学项目的管理现状。
本研究对在中国南京医科大学攻读医学和外科学士学位课程（MBBS）的国际学生进行了一项调查。本研究共收集到67份有效问卷，其中包括30名国际学生和37名中国大二学生。问卷重点关注这些学生的教学质量、运营体系以及对校园生活的态度和交流方式。
国际学生组对教学质量的平均满意度在五点量表上为2.833±0.348，远低于本国学生的平均得分3.783±0.417（p<0.05）。有趣的是，尽管国际学生对课程吸引力的态度影响与中国学生记录的相似，但他们对教师水平、课堂上理解教师讲授内容的延迟、接受教师教学方法的失败以及满足学生需求的教材不足更为不满。同样，国际学生对教育运营体系的满意度低于中国学生（2.700±0.337对3.388±0.392，p<0.05）。我们还注意到，国际学生比本国学生更不适应大学生活（3.833±1.256对4.378±0.689，p<0.05）。对于国际学生来说，主要原因可能是与中国教师的交流大幅减少，参加文化活动较少。
尽管在中国学习的国际学生数量迅速增加，但国际学生对医学教育管理的满意度低于中国学生。本研究是中国国际学生医学教育现状的一个缩影，希望提高他们的医学教育质量。
