Modes Of Elite Clinical Educationin The Background Of Mass Higher Education

As members of a special profession, clinical physicians are expected to perform the sacred duties of healing the wounded and rescuing the dying. Their professional ethics and medical techniques are closely related to the well-being of all mortal beings and even the stability and development of the whole society. Clinical physicians'quality lies in the education in medical universities. It is the duty of medical universities to cultivate highly qualified health personnel. With people's growing demands for health services, a substantial reform in the modes of health services, and development of international medical education, the 21st century has made increasing demands for medical students'quality. Accordingly, the reform, innovation and improvement of higher medical education make a great difference to the development of medical and health services. Nevertheless, the continuous enrollment expansion in China's universities in the era of mass higher education has brought about such new situations and problems as outmoded educational concept, shortage of investment in education, weakening construction of teaching staff and relatively decreasing quality of students, all of which have impelled us to make a reflective probe into the present modes of clinical education.Via document investigation, this study first obtained data and information at home and abroad about higher medical education. Then, by comparative analysis and case analysis, a further exploration was conducted on these data and information, on which relevant conclusions are based.Chapter One gives a review of theoretical basis for the research on modes of elite clinical education, and expounds the connotation and characteristics of elite education, and the differences between traditional elite education and modern elite education. Then, based on the characteristics of clinical education, the author advances the modes of its elite education and such factors correlated to quantity and quality as the requirements for enrollment and teaching. Chapter Two makes a comparison between enrollment and training modes for the specialty of clinical medicine in medical universities at home and abroad, based on the two aspects in elite clinical education: enrollment and teaching. The author respectively analyzes the status quo of enrollment policy, admission criteria, teaching conditions and teaching methods in higher education in both developed countries and China. With profound investigation, some new problems have been observed to exist in present clinical education in China.Chapter Three, focused on enrollment and teaching, advances new-era modes of elite clinical education, shaped in accordance with the situation of China, which is based on the analysis of external impetus and internal demands. Furthermore, their feasibility is studied.By referring to the experience and practices of elite medical education in medical universities in developed countries, new-era modes of elite clinical education with Chinese characteristics have been come up with, which aims at improving clinical education in China and the quality of teaching and education for students, and thus fostering more well-qualified medical brains to fulfill people's growing need for health services.