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Can nursing major apply for public health major?
Nursing majors can apply for public health majors. Nursing and public health are both medical majors, and medical majors can apply for cross-majors.

Public health is a public utility related to the public health of a country or region. The specific contents of public health include the prevention, monitoring and treatment of major diseases, especially infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis, AIDS and SARS). ).

Supervise and control food, medicine and public health, as well as related health promotion, health education and immunization. For example, the control, prevention and treatment of SARS are typical public health functions.

Nursing students mainly study scientific knowledge related to humanities and society, basic theory of basic medicine, basic knowledge and training of preventive health care and clinical nursing skills, and have the basic ability to implement community health service of holistic nursing department for customers. After graduation, you can engage in clinical nursing, preventive health care, nursing management, nursing teaching and nursing research in the nursing field.

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Public health practitioners qualification examination:

The qualification examination for public health practitioners is an industry access examination, and it is an examination to evaluate whether the applicants have the necessary professional knowledge and skills to engage in medical work. The qualification examination for public health practitioners is divided into two parts: practical skill examination and comprehensive written examination.

The practical skills test adopts the method of multi-station test. There is a practical skills examination base in the examination area, and several test sites are set up according to the examination content. Candidates pass the test center in turn and accept the practical skills test. Each candidate must take the test at the test station of the same test base.

The comprehensive written examination of the doctor qualification examination was held in mid-September, and the specific time was subject to the announcement of the doctor qualification examination Committee of the Ministry of Health. The examination time for public health practitioners is 2 days and is divided into 4 units.

The comprehensive written examination all adopts multiple-choice form. There are five types of questions in the examination for public health practitioners, namely A 1, A2, A3, A4 and B 1, with a total of about 600 questions.

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