To understand the current situation and evaluation about the employer’s demand of knowledge level and comprehensive ability of professional undergraduate talents in the health management.

Using self-designed questionnaire, the investigation was carried out on the company executives and teachers from 12 health management-related enterprises where health management graduates of Hangzhou Normal University practice internships. A total of 31 valid questionnaires were recovered. SPSS 19.0 software was used to conduct descriptive analysis, hierarchical analysis and rank-sum test of one-way ordinal data.

Employers believe that students need to strengthen the knowledge of health management and medical knowledge, and the top three skills that students are most likely to improve are common disease management skills, health risk factors intervention skills and health monitoring skills. Amongst those areas of professional abilities that need improving, three of the most important skill sets include sufficient fundamental knowledge in medicine and pharmacology, analytical and problem-solving abilities and teamwork as well as communication skills. There is a significant difference among the level of students' professional knowledge, the level of their professional skills and the level of their comprehensive ability by the rank-sum test (P<0.05).

According to the results of the demand-side's survey, training of health management undergraduate talents should increase the proportion of teaching about medical theory knowledge, redesign practical teaching modules, carry out foreign language learning as well as promoting the training method of health talents by the means of information, in order to optimize the training of profes-sional health talents through multi-angle as well as multi-level.

Health management; Personnel training; Demand-side; Investigation