Why clinical training in China should improve: a cross-sectional study of MD graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China is experiencing major medical education reforms that include establishing national training standards, standards for health professionals, and advanced health delivery system requirements. Graduate medical education (GME) is being piloted as a merger of Doctor of Medicine (MD) with PhD programs to improve academic research and clinical training. However, the academic degree-centred system has led to a preoccupation with research rather than clinical training. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of quality information regarding the clinical training of MD graduates from Chinese medical schools. To fill this gap, this general investigation aims to provide the perspective of recent MD graduates in China for the different subspecialties of clinical training as experienc

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8108351 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature