Abstract: Doctoral dissertation review is an important means to ensure the quality of doctoral dissertations. This paper takes 446 review comments received on 73 doctoral dissertations of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University in 2022 as the research object, and through keyword word frequency analysis, finds out the common quality problems of doctoral dissertations in traditional Chinese medicine universities. The paper proposes to improve the selection of doctoral supervisors and the allocation of enrollment indexes, enhance the academic norms and scientific research capabilities of doctoral candidates, establish mentor groups for doctoral cultivation mode, emphasize the opening of doctoral dissertations, strictly enforce strict pre-screening and pre-defense for dissertations to construct the quality assurance of doctoral dissertations of traditional Chinese medicine universities.

Key words: traditional Chinese medicine university,  doctoral candidate, dissertation, review comments