As the first cohort of Chongqing’s reformed Gaokao, I put “Clinical Medicine” at the top of my preference list and was admitted to Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine. When the admission line keeps climbing, I put “choosing the right direction” above “choosing the right logo”—if the direction is wrong, effort is wasted.
Is quality compromised?
- Our curriculum hours for anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and clinical sciences are identical to those of pure-Western medical universities;
- we use the 9th edition of People’s Medical Publishing House textbooks.
- I’ve completed eight rounds of simulator-based incision-suture-knot training (120 stitches, OSCE 92/100) and performed an animal cecal resection as primary surgeon (90 min).
- During my clerkship in a 3000-bed tertiary hospital, I independently conducted 100+ dressing changes, 100+ suture removals and 30+ drain withdrawals with zero infection and zero complaints.
Research training also follows the Western paradigm: systematic reviews, SEER-based analyses, power calculations and forest plots are all performed with R and SPSS.