![]() ![]() Medical education provides strong support for health care demands of the Chinese people. The number of higher clinical medicine graduates rose dramatically from 51,800 in 2002, to 182,900 in 2018, with an average annual growth rate of 8.2 % between 20, of which undergraduate students increased from 30,500 to 94,600, with an average annual growth rate of 7.3 % (Fig. In 2018, China had 420 undergraduate institutions with medical education (excluding military institutions), matriculating 286,219 medical undergraduates, 81,128 masters and 14,044 doctors in 2018–2019. The scale and structure of medical professional educationĬhina has the world’s largest medical education system. In this commentary, I summarize the progress of medical education in China, focus on the system, scale, structure and quality of health professional education, discuss the challenges and countermeasures of medical education in the above aspects. The COVID-19 epidemic has also placed new requirements for health professional education. With the release of the “Healthy China 2030” blueprint, China elevates the maintenance of people’s health to the height of national strategy, and China’s medical education reform has entered a new era. In 2020, the Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education (WCAME) of China was recognized as the accreditation body by the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME). The standardized residency training (SRT) was launched as a national strategy in 2013. The accreditation of clinical medical education was established in 2008. Starting in 1998, stand-alone medical institutions were merged into comprehensive universities. With the deepening of China’s health-care system reform, China is striving to modernise and standardise its medical education, and has experienced several epoch-making stages. As the most populous country and the second largest economy in the world, China has built the world’s largest medical education system since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949.
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