Abstract:

Objective To investigate the present situation and problems of medical higher vocational teachers' professional development, and explore the route suitable for medical higher vocational teachers' professional development. Methods One hundred and fifty-four full-time teachers of Shanghai Institute of Health Sciences were surveyed with self-designed questionnaires. A total of 142 questionnaires were recovered, with the recovery rate of 92.2%. There were 137 effective questionnaires, and the effective rate was 88.9%. The surveyed content and structure were divided into teachers' basic situation and teachers' professional development situation. Results There were problems in professional level, professional identity, professional independent consciousness, professional knowledge and skills structure, evaluation system and training system for medical higher vocational teachers' professional development, which needed to be improved. It was revealed that 72.99% teachers had just little sense of proud and responsibility for their profession, 61.31% teachers did not have definite professional development plan, and 46.45% teachers thought the unreasonable performance evaluation system was the biggest obstacle to construction of double teacher structure education team. Conclusion Medical higher vocational teachers' professional development may be promoted from teacher education system, management system, evaluation system, training system and professional practice.

Key words: medical higher vocational education, teachers professional development, investigation, analysis