A conceived model of“physician scientist”cultivation:exploring the double degrees of MD-PhD program

To the Editor:With the rapid economic growth and improvement of people's living standards in China,ever-greater demands for high-level health-care services hre expected.These expectations are bringing new challenges to the development of clinical doctors.However,the traditional path for doctor training is inadequate to meet these challenges,as both clinical and scientific practices are important for doctors but difficult to integrate into medical education.Thus,the current medical training system is challenged to combine scientific research training with conventional clinical training.To provide possible sol-utions,Health Science Center(HSC)of Xian Jiaotong University(XJTU)has been exploring a new mode of developing physician scientists:The Double Doctoral Program(DDP)。