Current perspectives on medical education in China

Abstract

Ethical and legal regulations are important factors in regulating human medical trials. Compared with legal regulation ethical regulation is a soft approach, so legal regulation must be involved in human medical trials. In this article we mainly discuss the current definition of law on the aspects of object, means and purposes of the human body medical test. According to the literature and the current status, with strict pragmatic attitude and compensation laws, human medical test will be controlled in the legal range, maximally be eliminated its negative effects and make medical science and technology and the whole life science benefit the mankind.

Overview of accreditation of undergraduate medical education programmes worldwide

“…Other countries in this region do not have national systems of medical school accreditation. In China, in which 130 medical schools offering MD programmes are listed in IMED, authorities are currently exploring the feasibility of developing and implementing a national quality control process 26 . Chinese standards for medical education are under development, modelled in part on the WFME Global Standards document.…”

“…In China, in which 130 medical schools offering MD programmes are listed in IMED, authorities are currently exploring the feasibility of developing and implementing a national quality control process. 26 Chinese standards for medical education are under development, modelled in part on the WFME Global Standards document. Additionally, the Institute for International Medical Education (IIME) has proposed a set of outcome-based standards that have been piloted in a number of Chinese medical schools.…”

Medical school accreditation in China: A Sino-Australian collaboration

“…Initially, interaction was informal, occurring opportunistically in conjunction with other activities (Field et al 2006). Subsequently, as collaborative activities gathered momentum, the Association of Medical Universities and Colleges of China (AMUCC) and AMC agreed in 2007 to formalize their collaboration in a Memorandum of Understanding, with each party meeting their own share of costs.…”

A survey of graduates’ perceptions on a Chinese medical school’s traditional and reform curricula

“…For over a decade, Chinese and Western scholars have been calling for China’s medical education to reform by restructuring curricula and adopting newer pedagogical methods. They have pointed out weaknesses in China’s traditional approaches, including a heavy reliance on didactic lectures, a role of learners as passive recipients of information, courses that are department and discipline based, a lack of clearly stated educational objectives, poorly developed assessment systems, inadequate clinical experience, and a lack of teacher training [ 1 – 5 ]. Recommendations have been proposed to address these weaknesses, often after comparing the medical curricula in China and North America or Western Europe.…”