Comparison between China and the United States on clinical research methodology training for clinicians / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

By comparing the training status of clinical research methods between United States and China, this article introduces comprehensive training system in the United States in and after the university, and discusses the problems in clinical research methodology training in China. These issues include that when medical students at school do not receive the training of professional clinical research courses, and after they go to the work, they also lack professional and accurate clinical research methodology training, which make it difficult for doctors to independently conduct clinical research. Therefore, it is recommended that Chinese medical schools should systematically establish clinical research methodology courses for undergraduates and graduate students to cultivate the clinical research capabilities of medical students. Secondly, according to the clinical research levels of doctors, different training models are proposed in the study. The existing social resources should be scientifically guided. We hope our work would provide some references for the improvement of clinical research methodology in China, to promote clinicians to be independently responsible for conducting clinical research, and improve the national medical level.