Abstract: "Cooperation of Clinical Practice and Medical Education" is a system guarantee for effectively linking undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education, optimizing educational program, academic degree system and clinical talents training standardization, and strengthening and improving the relevant support mechanism. Under such a background, it is a challenge to advance the clinical competence of "eight-year program" medical students and complete the standardized resident training. In this article, these issues are discussed and preliminary suggestions are presented, based on the education reform for eight-year program medical students at Xi'an Jiaotong University.