Strategies of improving the scientific innovation ability of pathological graduate students based on modularized special training

Pathology is a subject that studies the etiology, pathogenesis, pathological changes, pro-gression and outcome of diseases. Pathology links the basic research and clinical practice and is an impor-tant part of translational medicine. In order to cultivate qualified pathological graduates with solid patholog-ical theories and the abilities of proposing and addressing scientific hypotheses from pathological morphology changes, we employ modularized special training to divide the pathology training courses into morphology learning module, article searching and reading module, project design module, experiment operation module and scientific presentation module. The training contents among these modules are relatively independent but closely connected, and compose a strategy that aims to improve the scientific innovation ability of pathological graduates. Key words: Pathology; Graduate education; Specialized training; Innovation ability