I Specialty

Clinical Medicine

II Objectives

This specialty is aimed at cultivating senior practical medical talents that can meet the needs of the development of medical and pharmaceutical cause, are comprehensively developed in morality, intelligence, physical conditions, and aesthetics, possess the fundamental knowledge, theories and skills of basic and clinical medicine, have the capacity for working in the fields of medical care, prevention, and scientific research in the institutions of medical care or research, have lofty virtue, solid basis, high qualities, and strong practical abilities, possess the capabilities of accepting and acquiring continuing medical education, the sense of social responsibility, innovative and dedicative spirits, and abilities for lifelong study.

III Cultivation Demands

1.Demands in Ideology, Morality and Profession

(1) The students should abide by laws and regulations, possess scientific outlook on the world, life and values, be fair-minded, tough and practical, have excellent ideological qualities, and realization of social morality, and be willing to take a lifelong fight for mankind’s health cause.

(2) The students should cherish lives, care about patients, possess humanistic spirits, and take disease prevention and elimination as their lifelong responsibilities, the care for the dying as their moral responsibility, and the maintenance of people’s health interest as their professional responsibility.

(3) The students should establish a philosophy of lifelong study, recognize the importance of continuous self-improvement, and incessantly pursue excellence.

(4) The students should possess a consciousness of communicating with their patients and patients’ families to make them fully engage in and cooperate in the treatment plans.

(5) The students should attach importance to medical ethics during their professional practice, and respect patients’ privacy and dignity.

(6) The students should respect patients’ individual beliefs, and understand others’ cultural backgrounds and culture values.

(7) The students should seek truth from facts, and resort to other doctors for help voluntarily when encountering medical problems which they can’t solve safely.

(8) The students should respect their workmates or other professional medical and health workers, and have team spirit and conception of conducting health service cooperatively in a group.

(9) The students should establish the conception of conducting medical service according to laws, and learn to protect patients’ and their own rights through laws.

(10) The students should consider patients’ and their families’ interests and display the effect of usable medical resources to the limit, when they apply every possible technology to pursue exact diagnoses or alter the development of diseases.

(11) The students should possess scientific attitudes, and innovative, analytic and critical spirits.

(12) The students should fulfill the obligation of preserving medical ethics.

(13) The students should master the basic methods of data consultation, literature search, and acquiring related information through modern technology.

(14) The students should possess reasonably strong capacities for Chinese listening and reading, and be able to conduct fluent Chinese oral and written expression and translation to communicate with patients at ease and read medical literature in Chinese.

(15) The students should be physically and mentally healthy, and be able to fulfill the duties as doctors.

2. Demands in Knowledge

(1) The students should master the basic knowledge and scientific methods related to medicine in natural science, life science, behavior science and social science, and be able to apply them to guide their future study and medical practice.

(2) The students should master human body’s normal structure, functions and psychological conditions in every stage of life.

(3) The students should master the causes of all types of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, and understand the influence of environmental, social and behavioral psychological factors in the formation and development of diseases, and the importance of the prevention of diseases.

(4) The students should master the pathogeneses, clinical performance, and diagnosis, prevention and treatment principles of all types of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases in every stage of life.

(5) The students should master the basic pharmaceutical knowledge and the principles of reasonably applying medication in clinical practice.

(6) The students should master medical knowledge on normal gestation, principles of postpartum health maintenance, and family planning, and the principles of dealing with normal delivery and the common emergency in obstetrics.

(7) The students should master the related knowledge of clinical epidemiology and understand the importance useof scientific experiments in medical research.

(8) The students should master the basic laws of occurrence, development and spread of epidemics, and the principles of preventing and treating common epidemics.

(9) The students should master the related knowledge of forensic medicine, understand the role of forensic medicine as a bridge between the two great disciplines, law and medicine, and have a command of some certain knowledge and skills of a legal medical expert.

3. Demands in Skills

(1) The students should possess the abilities to comprehensively, systematically and correctly collect medical histories.

(2) The students should be able to conduct physical and mental examination systematically and normatively, and write down medical histories that meet the standard.

(3) The students should possess reasonably strong capacities for clinical thinking and expression.

(4) The students should be able to diagnose, prevent and treat the common and frequently-occurring diseases in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics.

(5) The students should possess the abilities to diagnose and deal with common emergency.

(6) The students should be able to choose appropriate clinical techniques and the most economical diagnosis means.

(7) The students should be able to verify clinical problems with proof according to the principle of evidence-based medicine.

(8) The students should possess basic abilities to offer health service to communities.

(9) The students should possess the abilities to effectively communicate with patients and their families.

(10) The students should possess the abilities to communicate with other medical and health workers.

(11) The students should be able to independently research medical problems in association with practice and acquire new knowledge and related information by applying published data and modern information technology, and read medical literature in a foreign language.

(12) The students should be able to conduct publicity and education to patients and the masses on healthy lifestyles, disease prevention, etc.

(13) The students should possess the capacities for self-study and lifelong study.

IV Duration

The standard duration is six years, in which the first year is for studying the Chinese language. The maximumallowableduration is double the standard duration.

V Degree

Bachelor of Medicine

VI Major Disciplines and Courses

Major disciplines: basic medicine, clinical medicine

Major courses: the series courses of Chinese, China Panorama, Medical Chinese, Basic Medical Chemistry, Medical Physics, Systematic Anatomy, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical Cellular Biology, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Physiology, Regional Anatomy, Medical Genetics, Medical Statistics, Histology & Embryology, Pathology, Medical Microbiology, Medical Immunology, Medical Psychology, Medical Ethics, Human Parasitology, Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Medical Imageology, Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Stomatology, Oncology, Dermatovenereology, Nuclear Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Neurology, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Forensic Medicine (adaptable according to the schedule of that year).

VII Demands in Major Parts of Practice Teaching

1. Preparation for Internship: conducted in the last 2 weeks before the internship, including the preparation forinternship in the ward area, training in basic clinical skills, lectures, etc.

2. Internship: arranged in the Affiliated Hospital or conducted in students’ own countries to enable them to pass the graduation exam, diagnose and treat common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, and deal with common emergency.

3. The Auxiliary Courses

(1)Activities of early experiencing clinical practice are carried out in association with professional education.

(2) Students are encouraged to take part in their teachers’ scientific research and product development in the activities of early experiencing scientific research.

(3)Lectures and speeches in professional knowledge are given to students for them to know about domestic and overseas academic conditions.

VIII Results Assessment and Demands for Graduation

1. Results Assessment

(1) Course

The results assessment falls into two types, the examination and the test. The assessment is conducted in oral or written forms, and may allow or ban students’ data consultation. The results of the course assessment are composed of the final examination results asthe60% and the daily performance asthe40%. The daily performance includes attendance rate, test results and homework.

(2) Comprehensive Assessment for Graduation

After the internship for graduation, the comprehensive examination for graduation will be conducted. It includes the examination on theories, and the examination on clinical skills. The content of the examination on theories is internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. The internal medicine includes epidemiology, psychiatry, and neurology. The examination on clinical skills is multi-station.

(3) Internship Assessment for Graduation

The completion assessment will be conducted in the internship for graduation.

2. Demands for Graduation

A student must pass the final exams or tests of the compulsory courses and pass the new HSK4 with a score of 180 or above, or pass the Chinese exam conducted by the university for the academic degree to get all the credits required. The students who have got all the above credits, meet the objectives of the moral education, and are mentally and physically healthy, are permitted to graduate. The students who are qualified for graduation, and meet the requirements of The Temporary Measures for the Implementation of Regulations on Academic Degrees of the People’s Republic of Chinaand Regulations on the Work of Conferring Bachelor’s Degree of Guilin Medical University are conferred bachelor’s degree in medicine.

（Updated May 2022）