[Abstract] Objective To understand the cognition of clinical medical postgraduates' professional ethics

in order to provide the basis for the further development of graduate professional ethics education. Methods The survey was carried out among 650 graduate students of the first hospital of Jilin University. The questionnaires including The general situation and the understanding of professional ethics of medicine. All data were analysed by SPSS 17.0

using Chi-square test to compare the results in different grades about the understanding of professional ethics. Results In this study

a total of 650 questionnaires were issued

629 valid questionnaires were collected with a recovery rate of 96.7%. Including 192 surgical professionals(30.5%)

The medical profession 264 (42%)

other professions are 173 (27.5%). First year graduate 312（49.6%） grade two 219（34.8%）

grade three 98（15.6%）. Most graduates’ professional values in line with the socialist core values. For example

the attitude of medical workers to accept red envelopes

410 graduate students (65.2%) firmly opposed to accepting this behavior. For the purpose of the study medicine

there was no statistically significant difference among different grades(P=0.273).For the attitude of red paper

the main problem in medical ethics education and the biggest factor for graduates

there was statistically significant difference among different grades(P=0.012

0.002

0.002). Conclusion At present

the professional ethics of postgraduates in clinical medicine is in good condition

but still needs to be improved. For further education and guidance for the problems of different grades.