Medical education refers to the educational activities to train medical and health personnel purposefully, planned and organized according to social needs, generally referring to the medical college education at the university level.

Medical education has a long history. Human beings have established medicine in the process of fighting against diseases. In order to pass on the long-term accumulated medical experience to the next generation, medical education came into being.

At first, it was in the form of guidance. With the expansion of knowledge and the increasing demand for medical talents, medical education in the form of schools came into being. As early as 443 AD, China established an official medical education institution during the Liu and Song Dynasties. In the 9th century AD, the Italian Salerno Medical College became famous all over the world.

Medical education in a certain society is restricted by politics and economy in a certain society, and is directly influenced by the development level of health and education. At the same time, medical education, in turn, has an inestimable influence and function on them, cultivating medical and health care talents for the society, protecting the social labor force, accumulating medical knowledge and experience from generation to generation, and realizing the continuation and reproduction of medical knowledge.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the idea of lifelong education appeared in Europe, which believed that education was a continuous learning process throughout one's life. Encouraged by this trend of thought, the international medical education community agrees that the medical education of doctors is also a lifelong process.

This process can be divided into three stages: basic medical education, that is, medical college education, during which students receive basic education and post-graduation education. After graduating from medical college, medical students receive professional training on the basis of their basic knowledge and skills, so that their knowledge and skills can be deepened in a certain professional direction.

Continuing medical education is a lifelong process of keeping up with the development of medical science and mastering new knowledge and technology after graduation. These three different stages of education should be closely linked to form a continuous and unified medical education process.

/kloc-After the 8th century, the establishment and application of biological theory and microscopy laid the foundation of modern experimental medicine. Biomedical model, with biology as the leading discipline, gradually occupies a dominant position in medicine, which directly affects all aspects of the medical field.