Qinghai University lies in western China. There are some gaps between western and eastern universities at student level

education fund

experiment condition and technique supply for graduate students. To improve educational quality for graduate students

Department of Pathophysiology of Qinghai University focused on teaching methods

evaluation approaches and capacity of teachers and constructed a course named Clinical Pathophysiology for scientific research graduate students. The course adopted a series of measures such as combining lectures with students' self-learning (PBL

paper discussion

lecture for students)

introducing experts from other schools to give lectures

establishing formative evaluation

optimizing teacher's group and so on

which have gained some achievements and improved the training quality for graduate students.