RESUMEN
Chinese dental doctoral education has developed multiple lengths of schooling, including eight-year programme, five-year direct doctoral programme, five-year master-doctor combined programme and three-year doctoral programme. The review summarizes the development of the lengths of schooling of Chinese dental doctoral education, compares and analyzes different modes of education and their outcomes. In order to further construct the Chinese dental doctoral education, it's strongly suggested to set a medical-scientist training programme, to promote the double-track system and to deepen the collaborative reform of medical and educational cooperation to train more outstanding talents for the future development of stomatology in China.
RESUMEN
Having been launched for almost two decades,the seven-year medical educational program in Jiangsu province has cultivated and exported a certain amount of popular high-level medical talents with high and integrated quality for our society.To establish and construct the medical educational hierarchy which takes the five-year program as the principal part while focuses on the eight-year program corresponding to our economic level will be the inevitable tendency for the development of the higher education in our province.