Abstract:

Objective: To strengthen free medical students' professional identity, effectively promote the medical students free
education, and put forward and improve the system of free medical students education through a comparative study of free medical and
non-free medical students' professional identity status. Methods: Richter five points method was adopted to design the questionnaire
and complete the data collection from October 2014 to May 2015. Results: Free medical and non-free medical students' professional
identity status did not differ significantly, and different grade medical students' professional identity presented by the regular change
from high to low. Conclusion: Responsibility consciousness should be clear through enhancing vocational education. Process
management should be strict through establishing constraint mechanism. It's necessary to explore the incentive mechanism and to
adjust policy timely to improve the system of free education for medical students.

Key words: free of charge, medical student, professional identity