Discussion on the feasibility of clinical pathology physician training for undergraduates majoring in forensic science / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Pathology diagnosis plays an important role in clinical medical activities but we have to face the plight of the scarcity of the pathological physicians in China.The curriculum structure in forensic science for undergraduates is almost equivalent to clinical medicine for undergraduates.However,the study of forensic pathology course makes the undergraduates' starting point of pathology of forensic science higher than that of clinical medical undergraduates.From the training experience of forensic pathologists and clinical pathologists' mutual exchange and cooperation in developed countries,we proposed that forensic undergraduates participate in the physician qualification examination as similar professional qualification and participate in the hospital standardized training of pathological physicians residents and apply for graduate professional degree education of clinical pathology to alleviate the shortage of clinical pathologists.