Abstract: Objective To explore the current situation of competency-based teaching ability of medical school faculty with regards to curriculum-based political and virtuous awareness, to analyze the relationship between work engagement and teaching ability, and to explore the role path of organizational commitment and self-esteem. Methods In July 2022,a total of 239 teachers in a medical college were selected as the research participants by convenience sampling method, and their political and virtuous awareness teaching ability, organizational commitment, self-esteem and work engagement were investigated. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric H test and spearman correlation analysis were used to analyze the data; structural equation model was constructed to analyze and verify the interaction path among curriculum political and virtuous awareness teaching ability, organizational commitment, self-esteem and work engagement. Results The score of curriculum political and virtuous awareness teaching ability of teachers in medical colleges was 118.0(23.0). There were statistically significant differences in the scores of curriculum political and virtuous awareness ability in the presence or absence of relevant incentive policies [119.0(20.0)vs.113.0(24.5)], organization support [119.0(20.3)vs.108.0(19.5)], the level of enthusiasm of colleagues to participate in it [121.0(17.0)vs.110.0(15.0)], whether students support political and virtuous awareness teaching [121.0(20.0)vs.111.0(18.0)], all P<0.05. There was a significant positive correlation among work engagement, organizational commitment, self-esteem and teaching ability (r=0.34-0.61, P<0.001). Organizational commitment and self-esteem played a parallel mediating role between work engagement and teaching ability, and the mediating effect values was 0.23 and 0.08, respectively. Conclusions The total score of teaching ability curriculum-based political and virtuous awareness of teachers in medical colleges are above average. Medical schools can enhance the teaching ability of faculty in political and virtuous awareness by increasing incentive policies and organizational support, improving teachers' enthusiasm for participation and students' supportive attitude to the subject. Teachers can improve their organizational commitment and self-esteem by increasing their work involvement in curriculum-based political and virtuous awareness, so as to further promote the improvement of teaching ability in this area.

Key words: Schools, medical, Curriculum-based political and virtuous awareness, Teaching ability, Work engagement, Organizational commitment, Self-esteem