Investigation and Analysis of Medical Students' Satisfaction with Public Physical Education Class -- Taking Xi’an Medical University as an Example
Authors: Fan Yiting , Maharkan Pattarapon 
Published: January 2024

Background and Aim： College physical education is the most important stage of school physical education and the most critical stage for students to develop lifelong sports habits. As an important evaluation index of physical education quality in colleges and universities, the study of students' satisfaction can provide a practical basis for improving physical education. As a group of future doctors, medical students' health status directly affects their careers. To understand the medical students' satisfaction with physical education courses, cultivate their interest in sports, and improve their sports skills, so as tote the physical and mental development of medical students. Therefore, to promote the health of medical students, this study started from the satisfaction of physical education curriculum to conduct a status study.
Materials and Methods: This research adopts the methods of literature review, expert interview, questionnaire survey, and mathematical statistics, takes "course satisfaction" as the research background, and takes college students of Xi’an Medical University as the survey object, to design a physical education class satisfaction scale for college students of Xi’an Medical University. For medical students, physical education content, physical education class hours, Level of teaching, Teaching methods, Effect of explanation, coaching skills, Solving a problem, and Strict Understanding of the current situation of physical education in medical colleges and universities.
Results: The survey found that 90.8% of medical students like physical education classes, 9.2% of medical students do not like physical education classes, and there is no significant difference between different genders and different grades. 69.7% of the medical students were satisfied with the physical education content and class hour arrangement, and there were significant differences in the satisfaction of different genders of medical students with the content and class hour arrangement of physical education, male students were more satisfied with the content of physical education than female students, but there was no significant difference among different grades. Medical students' satisfaction with the teaching, teaching effect, and teaching support of physical education teachers was higher, reaching more than 60%. The score of medical students' satisfaction with the value of physical education for health promotion was more than 4 points. There was a certain degree of gender difference in the specific content, and the score of male students was higher than that of female students.
Conclusion: Different genders and different grades of students' satisfaction with physical education classes showed a certain degree of difference. From the results, the satisfaction of male students was higher than that of female students, but the overall satisfaction of medical students with physical education classes showed a relatively satisfactory consistency. The survey found that the most dissatisfied aspects of the students were the teaching support, the lack of physical education teaching venues in the school, the large number of students in class, and the insufficient range of physical activities per capita, which could not allow students to truly integrate into the physical education class.