Integration of New Medical Education and Music Therapy: Enhancing Medical Students’ Emotional Literacy and Mental Health
Bihang ZhouAbstract
Objective
Heavy professional courses, clinical internship pressure and high medical occupational expectations bring sustained psychological pressure to medical students, leading to unstable mental states and insufficient emotional regulation ability, which seriously hinder their personal mental health and future doctor-patient communication competence. Under the Healthy China strategy, this paper integrates music therapy into new medical education, aiming to relieve medical students’ learning psychological pressure, optimize their inner mental states and improve their overall mental health and emotional literacy.
Subjects and Methods
This study selects clinical and nursing undergraduates as research objects. It adopts controlled teaching experiments, emotional scale tests and comparative statistical analysis. It monitors changes of students’ learning psychological pressure, real-time mental states and mental health levels before and after the integrated curriculum, and explores the internal mechanism of music therapy improving students’ emotional literacy.
Results
Single professional medical education fails to ease students’ cumulative learning psychological pressure and cannot correct their anxious and irritable mental states effectively. The integrated curriculum of new medical education and music therapy significantly reduces students’ occupational and academic psychological pressure, calms their negative mental states, and greatly improves their emotional regulation ability and individual mental health level.
Conclusions
The integration of music therapy and new medical education is an effective supplementary teaching mode for medical colleges. It can persistently alleviate medical students’ long-term learning psychological pressure, maintain stable positive mental states, protect their occupational mental health, cultivate qualified medical talents with sound psychology and excellent emotional communication ability for Healthy China construction.
Corresponding Author
Bihang Zhou, Xiamen Medical College, Xiamen 361023, Fujian, China.