The First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was taken as an example to investigate epidemic prevention and control ideology among TCM students under training, and to study the improvement measures of ideological and political education for students.

A questionnaire related to epidemic prevention and control (EPC) on ideology was self-designed. 1 200 TCM students were randomly selected and distributed in October 2020, 869 of which were effectively recovered.Students with different political backgrounds were analyzed and studied on their concern and cooperation with the national epidemic prevention policy, their attitude towards TCM, and their attitude to volunteer service.

All survey students took the initiative to pay attention to and cooperate with the national EPC policies (P>0.05), and student member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) had a more positive attitude towards TCM, participated more in voluntary services at ordinary times, and positively participated in the EPC during the epidemic (P<0.05).

Through the analysis and discussion of the research results, further condensed ideological and political education measures, such as mining ideological and political education resources to enhance all students high sense of social responsibility, focusing on enhancing students theoretical and cultural self-confidence in TCM, and expanding the radiation and driving role of students′ party building, as an effective way to improve the multi-dimensional integration of IPE into the clinical training process.