Abstract: Objective To understand the status of clinical professional preventive medicine teaching and provide the basis for the teaching reform of hygiene for clinical specialty. Methods We randomly selected the students in clinical medicine, general medicine, stomatology, anesthesiology, and imaging medicine of the University of South China to conduct surveys, including students’cognition of hygiene, evaluation of teaching settings and teaching effectiveness. Results 84.8% of students consider it necessary to study the Hygiene course. 85.8% of students believed to contribute to the future of learning and work. 90.4% of students believe that it helps deepen the concept of prevention.57.1% of the students think that the integration of the course with the clinical level is not close enough.Students in theoretical courses have the lowest awareness of the importance of preventive health strategies and measures. The experimental content that students are most interested in is drinking water disinfection. Conclusions At present, students have a high degree of awareness of the teaching of hygiene, and student's learning initiative needs to be improved. Therefore, universities should be combined with student’ learning needs, and actively carry out teaching reform, training of qualified personnel for the medical community.

Key words: clinical medicine, hygiene, teaching satisfaction, teaching reform