Abstract: Objective This study aimed to provide the theoretical basis for preventing and intervening the employment anxiety of medical college graduates through investigating the employment anxiety and the influencing factors. Methods Basic self-investigating questionnaire, self-rating anxiety scale(SAS) as the measurements were used to test the anxiety of 497 medical college graduates and analyze the factors like their majors, college categories, and total income etc. Results The total ratio for the employment anxiety of medical college graduates was 27.77% which included 17.71% of mild anxiety, 8.65% of moderate anxiety, and 1.41% of severe anxiety. The employment anxiety of the medical college graduates with different genders showed no significant differences; however, the employment anxiety of the medical college graduates with different majors, different colleges or different places where students come from showed significant differences. The graduates who took vocational institutions have greater employment anxiety than those who took general colleges. Clinical graduates' employment anxiety was the most serious. The students whose family had lower total income had greater employment anxiety than those who had higher general total income in their family. Conclusion These findings present that the colleges and the professional and the families should conduct pre-employment and employment guidance in mental health education to medical college graduates.

Key words: medical school graduates, anxiety, related factors