Abstract: After decades of development since 1997, the discipline layout of public management in China has been gradually improved, and its forms of undergraduate education, graduate education and MPA education are increasingly mature. The discipline of  in medical colleges and universities originated in the 1980s. Since 1981, more and more colleges have developed on the basis of social medicine and health management, and public health and preventive medicine. By combing the development background and history of the public management discipline, combined with the fourth round of subject assessment results, this study summarizes the direction selection problems and development difficulties encountered in the public management development in medical colleges and universities, and puts forward the opportunities and solutions for the its development, considering characteristics of the industry development and talent cultivation needs. Medical colleges and universities should focus on its research paradigm, highlight the industry characteristics in discipline layout, tap the potential of interdisciplinary scientific research, strengthen the construction of medical and health management think tank, serve the strategic planning of healthy China, design interdisciplinary curriculum system in talent cultivation, and expand talent cultivating mode.

Key words: medical colleges and universities, public management, discipline construction and development