Research and practice on scientific research ability cultivation for eight-year clinical medical students

The Third Military Medical University promotes the scientific research ability of the eight-year clinical medicine students through accurately fixing cultivation objectives, reasonably arranging teaching, implementing supervisor group for many-to-one teaching, carrying out plentiful innovative re- search projects, establishing reading system of scientific research papers, setting up scientific research innovation courses and setting up the credit system for innovative education. Eight-year program is signifi- cantly better than the five-year program in cultivating abilities of problem-discovering, researching and thesis writing. Key words: Eight -year clinical medicine;  Medicine education;  Scientific researeh ability