The course is designed to give a panoramic review on the history of worldwide medicine within the context of the evolution of human medicine, meanwhile utilizing a comparative perspective between western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine as the mainline. In the course, the features and value of Chinese medicine will be highlighted in the background of world history of medicine, so as to provide students a full and profound understanding of evolution trajectory and development trend of world medicine. It is hoped that the students will benefit from such a multi-dimension and multi-aspect approach of understanding medicine. Both case-based discussion and team cooperation learning will be organized and structured in the course planning, encouraging students to listen to and ingest opinions and insights from different perspectives, and reflect on some controversial issues, such as the dispute between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Religion, Medicine and Therapy. The ability of critical thinking will be paid more attention; through some endeavor, the experience of multiple dimensional thinking and the concern about such issues might be integrated into the medical students' future professional and social practices related with medical technology.
Public Health and Preventive Medicine
公共卫生专业是按照“预防为主”的卫生工作方针，从群体的角度探索与人类疾病和健康相关问题（如社会、心理、环境等因素与疾病和健康的关系）、预防疾病的发生、控制疾病的发展及促进健康的一门科学。它与管理学、经济学、法学等多门学科的关系十分密切。就像2003年非典肆虐的时候，疾病预防控制中心的工作人员所从事的工作就属于公共卫生的范畴，包括调配医疗资源、控制疾病扩散、具体实施卫生厅的一些政策，都是公共卫生学的范畴。 我国大部分开设公共卫生学院的综合性大学以及医科大学在本科阶段的招生专业为预防医学，研究生阶段才开设公共卫生专业以及公卫下的其他子专业。
