1, professional orientation and discipline focus: Health inspection and quarantine majors mainly focus on disease prevention, pathogenic microorganism detection, infectious disease monitoring and inspection and evaluation of food, water quality and environment; Prevention specialty emphasizes the overall planning, prediction, response and management of disease prevention and control, including epidemic monitoring, emergency response to public health emergencies and vaccination management.

2. Specialty curriculum: The curriculum of health inspection and quarantine specialty can include microbiology, biochemical analysis, environmental inspection, food inspection, medical immunology and other courses; The courses of preventive medicine may include disease prevention and control, public health, public health emergency management, health emergency response, etc.

3. Employment direction and job requirements: Health inspection and quarantine graduates often engage in laboratory inspection, quality control and safety management in health, food, drug supervision and inspection, medical institutions, CDC and other relevant departments; Graduates majoring in preventive medicine are mostly engaged in disease prevention and control, emergency handling of emergencies, policy formulation and management in CDC, public health departments, epidemic monitoring and emergency management departments.