A study on the mechanism affecting the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ability of medical students based on Constructivist Theory: mediating role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Willingness

作者：Hongxu Pan, Yujia Jiang, Yu Huang, Zhihao Zhang, Junjie Du, Xu Song, Jianjun Zhu, Yanlin Xie, Chenchen Xu, Yong Li · 发表于：Frontiers in Medicine · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.3389/fmed.2025.1630168 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Biomedical and Engineering Education、Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences、Health and Medical Research Impacts

Background: Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE) have become a global trend, yet medical education systems often fail to meet students' innovation development needs. This study examines how universities can enhance medical students' IE Willingness and ability. Methods: By analyzing survey data from 1,467 medical students under Constructivist Theory, we employed Amos 23.0 and SPSS 29.1 for cross-sectional path analysis. The study measured latent constructs-IE recognition, training courses, research talent models, incentive mechanisms, willingness, and ability-through 36 observed variables. Results: The analysis revealed highly significant direct effects on IE Willingness from the Research Talent Training Models (β = 0.857), IE Incentive Mechanism (β = 0.731), innovation courses (β = 0.696), and IE recognition (β = 0.521). For mediation effects on IE Ability (via willingness), only IE recognition (β = 0.122) and incentive mechanisms (β = 0.064) showed significance, while research models (β = 0.053) and innovation courses (β = 0.062) were non-significant. These findings suggest that optimizing incentive mechanisms, refining innovation courses, and strengthening research talent models-the most impactful driver-can effectively foster medical students' innovation engagement.