A Nation-wide Survey on Educational Reform in Medicine and Health Education in China — A Teaching Staff's Perspective

This chapter gives an overview of the research methods in this study — design and contents of the survey, data generation and analysis, and limitation of the methods. This introduction is followed by descriptive data from the respondents', concerning the overall number of participants, gender, age, profession, job title, and university's geographical location. This chapter lays a methodological and empirical foundation for the following chapters of the book.