Practice and effect evaluation of the combined education on the professional degree of clinical medicine and standardized training of resident doctors

"Combined training" is a new training mode which combines the education of profes-sional degree of clinical medicine graduate and the resident standardization training. Xiangya hospital of Central South University has tried this kind of training mode since 2012. We draw lessons from the advanced training concept in America in combination with the practical situation of our hospital and have established the "Xiangya-Yale" model of resident standardization training featuring with the Six Xiangya goals which are "professional ethics, professional skills, patient safety, medical ethics, teamwork spirit, innovation and self-improvement", highlighting the project manager responsibility system, 360 degree examination and assess-ment, assessment of the OSCE, Mini-CEX evaluation. Through comparing and analyzing the midterm examination scores between the "combined training" group and "non-combined training" group, we have found that the "combined training" group is significantly superior to "non-combined training" group on clinical skills. In addition, the questionnaire survey results show that most graduate students have positive attitude to "combined training". They believe it will be helpful for them to improve the ability of clinical skills, med-ical practice, doctor-patient communication skills and theoretical knowledge, and contributes to the future career development. "Combined training" is one major initiative deepening the reform of medical health system and medical education which greatly promotes the development of our country health enterprise, although there still exist some flaws including training teachers, content, implementation, management and evaluation. Key words: Clinical medicine degree; Standardized training of residents; Combined training