Status quo and reform proposals of dental doctoral education / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

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.