Research On Learning Motivation Of Non-medicine Undergraduates In Medical Colleges And Universities

With the increasing need for higher education popularization in China,and under the principles of “widening speciality coverage,improving speciality adaptability,supporting dominant specialities and enhancing teaching efficiency”,colleges and universities have been taking constant steps optimizing the structure of their speciality setting.Certain higher medical colleges and universities tend to take traditional dominant discipline,like medicine as their growing points and make great efforts to develop those interdisciplinary specialities or non-medical specialities in order that their colleges or universities could gradually become multidisciplinary comprehensive colleges or universities.However,under present applications-filling policy for college entrance examination in China,most examinees can't have both about better school and better speciality,which leads some examinees whose scores are not high enough choose to go to medical colleges or universities but at the price of being admitted into a non-medical speciality.Taking a method of Questionnaire Survey,this research selected 499 undergraduates from four higher medical universities in China,that is,Tianjin Medical University,Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Inner Mongolia Medical University and Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as the research subject,and took Intrinsic Motivation Inventory——Activity Perception Questionnaire,Extrinsic Motivation Inventory and the Aspirations Index as the research tool.This research descript Intrinsic Motivation,Extrinsic Motivation and the Aspirations Index by statistical methods like descriptive statistical analysis,independent-sample T test,single factor analysis of variance,and compared those figures with undergraduates' from clinical specialities.Analyze the relations among these three data with Pearson Correlation Coefficient and we can finally get the following results:1.The learning motivation level(LML)of non-medical undergraduates in medical colleges or universities is barely little higher than the average,and is far more behind than that of clinical undergraduates.2.Analyzing the results from the aspect of gender,there are no differences between the two genders in LML of non-medical undergraduates in medical colleges or universities;and from the aspect of specialities,the LML of undergraduates from science and engineering major is higher than that of undergraduates from humanity and social science major;and from the aspect of schools,the LML of undergraduates from colleges or universities where non-medical specialities take bigger proportion is higher than that of undergraduates from colleges or universities with lower proportion of non medical specialities.3.External factors which include high professional influences,enough attention from school and guaranteed employment would bring positive stimulus to the intrinsic motivation for learning of non medical undergraduates in medical colleges or universities.Besides,combining professional learning with intrinsic life goals like achieving personal improvements or making contributions to our society would also effectively formulate student's intrinsic motivation for learning.The above results provide us with the following hint: Both in-class countermeasures like Freshman Orientation,Career Planning and Employment Guidance which help improve students' sense of identity to their specialities,further help them find out their direction and out-class countermeasures like launching professional practice which help improve students' sense of identity to social value of their specialities and providing policy support to the development of multidisciplinary system are effective approaches to enhance the motivation for learning of non-medical undergraduates in medical colleges or universities.