| The cause of education, especially high education, has been pushed to history's ante-stage by coming of knowledge economy and progress of science and technology. It is a worldwide issue to reform and develop education today. Under the circumstance of increasing of social hygienic need, innovating and developing medical education appears very important because of its basic significance in maintaining and promoting mankind's health. However, reforming and developing medical education is a long-term and arduous work. When we try to find the laws of medical education and seek its basic ways of developing hi new times, we should emancipate the mind, follow the reality and hold its laws.By looking back medical education's developing history, analyzing its backgrounds hi this times and exploring trends of innovating all over the world, this essay will make a conclusion and give some advice to promote Chinese medical education in 21th century. There are four sections as following.No.l Inspiring from historyAccording to this essay, history of medical education is bound to follow developing of the mankind society. During the long evolving progress, medical education successively emerged several teaching models such as privately passing in popular in primitive society, Master-appenticed training, monastery educating of Middle Ages hi Europe, educating under the influence of experimental-philosophy after the Renaissance and the Flexner model of U.S.A. Inaddition, a few of medical course models were put forward in last decades. For example, there were core curriculum pattern, comprehensive curriculum pattern, question-based curriculum pattern and community-based curriculum pattern. By studying the history of medical education, we can conclude as following:﹖he level of social producing and the increasing of medical service need are the most essential factor which spurred medical education progress. ?Revolution of science and technology is the most promoting factor. 〤omprehensive effect of External factors as level of medicine development, situation of social economy and culture and internal factors as links between teaching and studying, context, media and methods of teaching is its foundation. 〩olding the humanity of medicine is the basic principle of medical education.No.2 Challenges of the new timesTo declare the objective law of medical education reform, we must study the background of its times thoroughly. Nowadays, modem medical education is facing with the challenge of knowledge economy featured in high-tech, information and globalization, with the challenge of modern medicine featured in theoretical and technical greatly developing and historical transforming of medical pattern, and with the challenge of health cause featured in contradiction between require and health resource shortage. They not only lead to the profound change in educational principle and educational philosophy idea, but also lead to the giant reform pressure in object, content and process.No.3 Trends of developingSince the last 20th century, the medical education reform in foreign countries which is about the level of competence, pattern of course, the content of course and so on, has already indicated the features of future medical education, which mainly manifests the trends of diversity, sociality, individuality, modernizing, lifelong and mternationality. These trends affect the development of medical education on tow levels. One is the scale, the structure and the speed of the medical education's developing, and the other is the microcosmic concrete teaching innovating, such as the purpose and pattern of training, the course content and system, the teaching methods' reforms and so on. Functions of these two levels are finally reduced to one thing, that is to train the medical talents who are fit in with the needs of the society.No.4 Tactics for the futureToday, carrying out the medical educational reform is a historical task. From the modernize construction program in the 21th century's f...
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