Abstract: Objective  To survey the students’ and teachers’ satisfaction with preventive medicine specialty  practice, and to  fi nd and analysize the problems, in order to improve the quality of the practice. Methods  Self-administered questionnaire survey was used in the investigation to know the satisfaction about specialty  practice.  Results  The students’ satisfaction degree of time arrangement was 85.4% in the Center for Disease  Control and Prevention (CDC) and 90.2% in the Health Supervision Institute(HSI); the satisfaction about  “whether teachers set good examples for students ”was 82.9%; answers towards “whether the practice time  accounts for half of the working hours” in CDCs and HSIs was 75.7% and 87.8%; what the students believed  most helpful were the recognization of the contents and procedures of public health works, the improvement of  their practical professional abilities and the cultivation of occupational ethics. The teachers’ satisfaction with  specialty practice was almost the same with the students’, 18.6% of the teachers believed the teaching time  accounted for more than half of the working hours. Conclusion  Specialty practice is important for preventive  medicine undergraduates, but the arrangement in practice , the mode of practice, the faculties’ teaching and the  textbook compilation need to be perfected and improved constantly.