High-quality development has emerged as a central theme in the cultivation of doctoral candidates for the professional degree of acupuncture-moxibustion and

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in the new era. Focusing on the core mission and contemporary demands

and through literature analysis and research interviews

the current situation for training acupuncture-moxibustion and

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personnel was introduced. In order to break through the four practical challenges in the high-quality training of doctoral candidates for professional degree (including homogenization of training mechanism

optimization of training mode

limited integration of training resources and lack of evaluation of training quality)

it needs to explore the strategy pathways from 4 aspects

(1) adhering to the goal orientation

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owing the specific rules of talent training and innovating talent training system; (2) optimizing the training process by building a "medicine-teaching-research-practice" integrative training model so as to meet the needs of talent training; (3) strengthening the development of practice bases

and organizing collaborative supervisory teams to provide favorable training conditions; (4) consolidating quality-guarantee mechanism by integrating dissertation with ascertainment of practical achievements

and implementing scientific assessment and evaluation.