Thoughts on the massfication of higher medical education

Mass higher education is an inevitable tendency with the social development. Thus it is worthwhile to study and discuss whether higher medical education can develop from elite-focused to mass-directed. Now that the medical education institutions kept increasing the number of the students enrolled, we should quicken the pace to help realization of diversification of higher medical education. A quality evaluation system must be established in correspondence to the versatile and multi-objected medical education, which is a strong guarantee of education quality. Students should be trained to develop all-rounded ability and innovation. Teachers' morality and teaching skills should be emphasized, development of teaching bases stressed, and an overall evaluation system should be set up and consummated. All these measures ensure that medical education help producing the best in the trend of mass higher education.