국제의료관광코디네이터 국가자격 시험에 대한 대구지역 보건의료 및 관광 전공 대학생들 간의 인식차이

Abstract

The study was conducted to analyze the differences in perceptions of majoring in healthcare and tourism students' the international medical tourism coordinator national qualification examination for a basic data for improving the curriculum for human resource development that can be activated by the medical tourism industry. The survey form were formulated based on literature review and the survey was conducted to the university students college health department and tourism department of Dae-gu region by on-line. The 287 survey were collected and analyzed using a SPSS 21.0 program. The results are summarized as follows. First, perceptions of healthcare major students’ the international medical tourism coordinator national qualification examination were higher than tourism major students’. Second, the employment prospect in field of a medical tourism was high both of healthcare and tourism major students but an employment interest of the healthcare major students’ was higher than the tourism major students’. Third, the respondents who answered that they have obtained the certificate responded more positive of healthcare major students’ than tourism major students’. The reason of not preparing the certificate was a difficulty of studying a foreign language for healthcare major students and lack of information for tourism major students. Fourth, the most difficult subject of certificate for healthcare and tourism major students was a ‘medical term and understanding of disease’ but the score of tourism major students was higher. The implication of this study was need to improve the job promotion in field of medical tourism and the medical knowledge education program for tourism major students and the foreign language program for healthcare major students.