Exploring the Practice of Labor Education for Medical Students Based on the Construction of student professional organizations from the Perspective of Mental Health
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Labor Education, Mental Health, Student Professional OrganizationsAbstract
Objective: Medical students face high-intensity academic and employment pressure, and are a high incidence group of psychological problems. This research aims to explore an effective path to deeply integrate labor education and mental health education with student professional organizations the carrier, and provide practical reference for the talent training of medical schools. Methods: Adopt the literature research method to systematically sort out the theoretical basis of labor education and mental health education, analyze the actual dilemma of the student professional organizations, and combine experiential learning theory, communities of practice theory, self-efficacy theory, and self-determination theory to build an implementation framework of “promoting mental health through labor education” .Results: At present, there are three dilemmas in the construction of student professional organizations in medical schools: insufficient value guidance, lack of resource integration, and narrow coverage, which restricts the performance of its psychological education function. Based on this, this study has built an implementation path of organically integrating positive psychological quality cultivation into community labor education from the three levels of whole-process guidance, all-round support and full participation. Conclusion: The organic combination of labor education and mental health education through the hub of student professional organizations can effectively improve the psychological resilience and professional adaptability of medical students, and provide an operable practical paradigm for medical schools to explore a new model of talent training under the background of the "integration of five educations"
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