THE CURRENT SITUATIONBefore the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. China’s higher medical education was very backward. In the 20 years before 1949. graduates from institutions of higher medical educ...THE CURRENT SITUATIONBefore the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. China’s higher medical education was very backward. In the 20 years before 1949. graduates from institutions of higher medical education totalled less than 10 000. In 1949. there were only 44 medical and pharmaceutical schools with 18 800 undergraduates. The higher medical education has taken a tortuous course of development after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The first phase (1949-1965) was a period of prelimi-nary formation of medical education system of new China. During this period, the experience of the former Soviet Union was followed in determining the objectives of higher medical education, the length of the curriculum, specialties, the structure of the curriculum, the contents of teaching, etc. and a preliminary system was instituted. The second phase (1966-1976) was a time of chaos during which the normal educational program was disrupted. The third phase started in 1977. The wrong line was re展开更多
文摘THE CURRENT SITUATIONBefore the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. China’s higher medical education was very backward. In the 20 years before 1949. graduates from institutions of higher medical education totalled less than 10 000. In 1949. there were only 44 medical and pharmaceutical schools with 18 800 undergraduates. The higher medical education has taken a tortuous course of development after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The first phase (1949-1965) was a period of prelimi-nary formation of medical education system of new China. During this period, the experience of the former Soviet Union was followed in determining the objectives of higher medical education, the length of the curriculum, specialties, the structure of the curriculum, the contents of teaching, etc. and a preliminary system was instituted. The second phase (1966-1976) was a time of chaos during which the normal educational program was disrupted. The third phase started in 1977. The wrong line was re