Table 7. Cronbach’s α reliability test of the identified factors.

Factor	Items	FL	Cronbach’s α	AVE
Professional value attitude	Ethics and morality	0.95	0.58	0.34
	Professional values	0.14
	Respect for patients	0.17
	Ability of self-regulation	0.44
	Respect for other health professionals	0.24
Basic medical knowledge	Basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine	0.12	0.44	0.29
	Basic knowledge of traditional medicine	0.31
	Classical books of traditional medicine	0.93
	Other medical knowledge	0.2
Communication skills	Communicate effectively with others	0.28	0.65	0.36
	Solve problems using teamwork	0.5
	Oral or written communication abilities	1
	Good job in health education	0.41
Clinical skills	Diagnose and treat diseases with dialectical theory	0.5	0.64	0.28
	Comprehensively diagnose disease using laboratory examination	0.71
	Chinese medicine skills, such as acupuncture and massage	0.67
	Rescue principles of Western medicine	0.5
	Standardized treatment	0.37
Information management	Collect medical information through database	0.24	0.58	0.62
	Diagnosis and treatment via networks	0.58
	Patient record keeping	0.98

FL, standardised factor loadings; AVE, average variance extracted.