Investigation on the Current Situation of Life Education 
and Reflection on the General Goal of Life Education 
for Contemporary Chinese Medical Students

Qian Zhao; Dongming Wang; Yunlong Chen; Haosen Sun

doi:10.18686/cle.v1i1.3450

Investigation on the Current Situation of Life Education and Reflection on the General Goal of Life Education for Contemporary Chinese Medical Students

Qian Zhao, Dongming Wang, Yunlong Chen, Haosen Sun

Abstract

Life education is an important subject of contemporary college education. The responsibility and pressure of contemporary college
students are increasing rapidly, but the overall construction of psychological consultation and mental health courses in China is not mature,
there still remaining the difficulty to solve psychological problems of college students from the source. At present, the importance of life
education has been generally recognized all over the world, and amounts of increasingly perfect life education systems in schools, families,
society and other aspects have been established, so as to effectively and permanently protect the mental health of college students.
This article conducts an overall investigation on the current situation of life education in China and other countries, and discusses the
overall goal of life education for contemporary Chinese medical students for reference.

Keywords

Life Education; College Education; Mental Health; Medical Education

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/cle.v1i1.3450

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