JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

In order to further optimize the clinical and scientific training of high-level doctoral graduates, the Office of the National Postdoctoral Administration has launched a clinical postdoctoral program since 2015. This program offers postdoctoral clinical medicine students three years of individualized and intensive training through a full mentorship system, multidisciplinary intersection and a multi-team teaching platform.

Objective:

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of clinical postdoctoral training programs for cultivating high-level innovative and compound talents in clinical medicine.

Methods:

This study is a retrospective non-randomized controlled experiment. Doctoral graduates who entered the hospital for standardized residency training from 2015 to 2019 were enrolled.

Results:

23 cases of postdoctoral training group and 106 cases of doctoral training group were enrolled in the study. In the index of clinical ability, the theoretical score of final examination was higher in the postdoctoral group (445.70±14.67 vs. 435.12±15.29, P=.004). However, the number of operations was higher in the doctoral group (5.29±12.91 vs. 1.52±3.883, P=.013). In terms of the scientific research ability indices, the postdoctoral group outperformed the doctoral group in terms of published papers and approved provincial natural fundings (2.35±2.39 vs. 1.11±1.47, P=.002; 47.83% vs. 17.00%, P=.001). But there is no difference in the amount of National Natural Science funding. At the same time, there was no statistical significance between teaching ability and general ability.

Conclusions:

The clinical postdoctoral program places a strong emphasis on developing the trainees' clinical ability and scientific research innovation ability, which demonstrates the efficiency of the clinical postdoctoral training program and is worth promoting in more medical education institutions.