Current situations and corresponding countermeasures in clinical teaching in affiliated hospitals of comprehensive universities

Objective:The two primary tasks of affiliated hospitals of comprehensive universities i.e. saving wounded people and treating patients and training qualified medical personnel, are challenged by maintenance of patients' rights and the clinical teaching quality appears a tendency to be poorer and poorer under the current situation of reforms of health care system in our country. Based on the analysis of the current situations of clinical teaching in affiliated hospitals of comprehensive universities, it is discussed the factors involved in the improvement of the clinical teaching quality in the affiliated hospitals of comprehensive universities, including formulation of the corresponding laws and regulations to guarantee the clinical teaching quality, execution of standards in medical practice and respect of patient's rights, definition obligations of both doctors and patients, correct management of the relationship among clinical treatment, teaching and researches, establishment of a perfect managing system of clinical teaching, and construction of a group of qualified clinical teachers.