Research on the influencing factors of community practice preceptors’teaching needs based on the perspective of students

Objective To explore the influencing factors of community practice preceptors' teaching needs based on the perspective of students. Methods A total of 889 students in Sichuan province were selected with methods of convenience sampling from June 2017 to November 2017. The sample came from community health service centers, medical schools and hospitals' general medicine training center burdened with community practice teaching task in Sichuan province. Results Single factor analysis showed that the gender, age, education, specialty, type, area, internship time, learning effects, preceptors' practical teaching ability and preceptors' training needs were statistically significant factors(all P<0.05). Ordinal regression analysis showed that students from provincial capital cities believe that preceptors ' teaching needs are lower(OR=0.643, 95% CI: 0.463-0.891). Compared with the students who have poorer evaluation of their practical learning effects, students whose the evaluation was very good(OR=0.385, 95% CI: 0.220-0.675), good(OR=0.659, 95% CI: 0.433-1.002) and general(OR=0.732, 95% CI: 0.518-1.034) had lower levels of teaching needs. Compared with the students who have poor evaluation of teachers' teaching ability, students whose the evaluation was very good had lower levels of teaching needs(OR=0.527, 95% CI: 0.301-0.923). Conclusion Community practice preceptors should pay attention to the students' personal experience and learning background, focus on students' evaluation of practical learning and their teaching ability, and optimize teaching behavior according to students' evaluation.