Construction and Practice of Independent Training System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Talents in the New Era

In the context of the new era, the establishment of an independent training system for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) talents is of great significance for inheriting and developing the TCM cause, as well as serving the Healthy China strategy. Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine actively responds to the national strategy by integrating interdisciplinary studies, optimizing the structure of specialties, updating the knowledge system, strengthening capacity building, and promoting the innovation of collaborative mechanisms among medicine, education, scientific research, and enterprises. It has established a "1+4+1" independent training system for TCM talents. This system takes the cultivation of virtue and talent as its main thread, ensures the collaborative mechanism, strengthens the construction of the disciplinary system, specialty system, knowledge system, and capacity system, and comprehensively improves the quality of independent training of TCM talents, contributing to the Healthy China initiative and the construction of modernization with Chinese characteristics.