Practice and Thinking on Hierarchical Cultivation of Undergraduate, Master and Doctoral Talents in Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The cultivation of high-quality acupuncture and moxibustion talents is the core element to promote the development of the discipline. Through thinking and analyzing the original meaning and extended connotation of "undergraduate, master, and doctor", combined with the talent training priorities, key objectives, along with training practice and practice of different levels of undergraduate, master, and doctor of the major of acupuncture, moxibustion and tuinain in colleges and universities, the paper summarized and condensed the education concept of "consolidating-innovating-enlightening". Namely, we should strengthen and consolidate the foundation at the undergraduate stage, as well as pay attention to the cultivation of students' core values and professional basis of acupuncture and moxibustion. In the master's stage, we should accumulate and strengthen the cultivation of knowledge integration and application along with practical innovation ability. The doctoral stage needs to be enlightening, focusing on the cultivation of insight, cognition and exploration. This concept clarifies the different orientations, key objectives and differences of the cultivation of undergraduate, master and doctoral talents, initially constructs the ideas and methods of the classification of different hierarchical talents in acupuncture and moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine, and provides ideas and practical references for the classified cultivation of high-quality, application and innovation oriented talents in acupuncture, moxibustion and tuina.