Necessity and Feasibility of Establishing 8-year Education Program of TCM / 中华医学教育探索杂志

In 5-year undergraduate education of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),obvious contradiction between learning time and learning contents results in some problems such as lack of humanity knowledge,less study of TCM theories,weak clinic skills and so on.The establishment of new 8-year education program of TCM has significant meaning in improving TCM education quality,fostering excellent TCM talents and promoting development of TCM.It is completely feasible to run 8-year education of TCM as an experiment through cooperation with comprehensive university in running a school and using 8-year fostering experience of clinical specialty of Western Medicine for reference.