Abstract: Objective To understand the cognition of college students about the relationship between doctors and patients, especially gap between medical students and non-medical students and influential factors, to build more active social attitude during collage time.Methods The self-administered-questionnaire survey of 866 college students was conducted in 12 universities in Beijing. The study employed description, factorial analysis and Logistic analysis with SPSS 20.0.Results 62.6%(542/866) responders evaluate relationship of doctor-patient. Different factors influents two groups. Medical students with more human courses and non-regime evaluate more positive. Non-medical students with high grade, interactive factor, more life-science courses show more positive. There is a big difference between medical students and non-medical students on the relationship between doctors and patients, and there is a certain degree of “opposition” in their view. This opposition is due to their different positions.Conclusions Medical students evaluate relationship of medical-patient worse than non-medical students. Human education should be established to medical students so that more active social attitude could be built in the coming future.

Key words: Doctor-patient relationship, College students, Influence factors