The Employment Direction and Prospect of Social Work Major in Kunming Medical University

Medical social worker, good prospects.

1. The major of social work in Kunming Medical University is to train medical social workers. All students majoring in social work need to enter clinical practice in the sixth semester, rotate hospital departments and get familiar with basic medical scenes before their professional practice.

2. The First People's Hospital of Qujing City is a comprehensive third-class first-class hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research and rehabilitation. According to the characteristics of social work, arrange clinical practice for students in rehabilitation, general medicine, geriatrics, oncology, traditional Chinese medicine, pain, health management center and other departments.

3. The "clinical+professional" dual practice mode has laid a good foundation for the cultivation of "medical+social worker" professionals, and it is also the first in universities offering social work majors in China.

4. Social work has developed rapidly in China. At the same time, due to emerging issues such as doctor-patient relationship and pension, the social demand for medical social workers has increased rapidly.

Kunming Medical University integrates social work with clinical medicine, public health, mental health, rehabilitation medicine and humanistic medicine, aiming at cultivating high-quality compound and applied social work professionals with medical education background to meet social needs.