Evaluation on medical statistics teaching by medical doctoral students

Objective To investigate the evaluation of medical doctoral students on medical statistics teaching. Methods An investigation was carried out among doctoral students of 2012 using questionnaires in a medical university. A total of 272 doctoral students were investigated and 266 （97.79%） of them had learned medical statistics before enrollment. Statistical description was used to analyze enumeration data by calculating cases and percentages. Results More than 88.00% of them thought that medical statistics was helpful for their future work. More than 60.00% of them thought that the present teaching contents were appropriate and about 93.00% of them thought that examina- tion mode was appropriate. However, 65.00% of them thought that the class hours were not enough and some con-tents should be explained more clearly, Conclusions Both basic statistics methods and advanced statistics methods should be given consideration to. Some frontier or hot knowledge of medi- cal statistics should be arranged and the class hours should be increased to expand the content of teaching. Key words: Doctoral students;  Medical statistics;  Teaching evaluation