China Plans Medical Class for Teen-agers
China plans to launch an experimental medical class to start training doctors from the age of 14, the New China News Agency said Friday.
The Shandong Institute of Chinese Traditional Medicine will begin accepting junior secondary school graduates between the ages of 14 and 16 later this year and will favor doctors’ children, institute head Chang Qiwen told the agency.
The aim is to discover whether enrolling very young students for a specialized eight-year course will produce better doctors than the current system, which trains senior school graduates for five years, he said.
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