Fig. 3

Self-assessment of preventive medicine graduates in CDCs and medical institutions. # (p < 0.05) professional skills vs. the other four dimensions in medical institutions. The five dimensions are assessed using a five-point Likert scale, ranging from “extremely inadequate” to “very adequate”; with 5 points assigned to “very adequate”, 4 points to “adequate”, 3 points to “essentially adequate”, 2 points to “not adequate”, and 1 points to “extremely inadequate”