Abstract: Objective To explore the academic innovation ability and its influencing factors of postgraduates with Master of Public Health. Methods A total of 682 postgraduates with master of public health from 6 medical colleges in Shandong Province were enrolled by stratified random sampling. A questionnaire survey was conducted on academic innovation ability and its influencing factors, and t-test was used to compare the two groups, and multivariate Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the influencing factors. Results The total score of academic innovation ability of postgraduates with master of public health was (61.32±1.04), the total scores of the four dimensions was (10.81±0.92) for personal traits, (22.75±0.86)for vocational attainments, (17.88±1.02) for basic abilities and (7.07±0.94) for thinking characteristics, respectively. The main factors that affected the academic innovation ability of postgraduates with master of public health included academic platform, teacher-student relationship, scientific research participation, academic motivation, learning style and tutor academic support (t=5.95、10.09、10.23、20.88、10.97、10.44,all P<0.05). Conclusions The academic innovation ability of postgraduates still has great room for improvement. Focus should be placed on such dimensions as individual characteristics and basic abilities; the main influencing factors were academic platform, teacher-student relationship, and scientific research participation, academic motivation, learning style and tutor academic support. It is suggested that measures should be taken to improve the academic innovation ability of postgraduates, such as optimizing the construction of discipline groups, perfecting the double tutorial system and enhancing their scientific research empowerment.

Key words: Public health, Master degree graduate student, Academic innovation ability, Impact factors