Abstract: Recent reforms of China’s postgraduate education system of clinical medicine combined the clinical medical postgraduate education with the standardized residents training, aiming to cultivate high-level applied talents proficient in various clinical skills through systematic and standardized training. Yet in the process of implementation, the tendency of “emphasizing clinical research over scientific research”, and the phenomenon of neglecting the systematic scientific research training of medical professional postgraduates raised concern. This, to some extent, deviates from the goal of training clinical medical postgraduates into all-around talents with both clinical and scientific research capabilities. This paper analyzed and discussed the above issues, and put forward our suggestions and measures for reference. 

Key words: medical graduate students of professional degree, cultivation, scientifc research capabilities, clinical ability