Objective 　To explore the main characteristics and influencing factors of military phar-macy postgraduates' creative ability

providing the basis for the creative ability training and education man-agement of military pharmacy postgraduate students. Methods　Full-time graduate students of three mili-tary medical colleges and universities were participated in this study

and questionnaire survey was carried out on 428 military pharmacy postgraduates by cluster random sampling. SPSS 16.0 was used to process descriptive analysis

t-test

F-test

correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis for data analysis. Results　The creative ability of military pharmacy postgraduates is better than average (the median is 3)

and the ability to construct knowledge was significantly higher than that of finding problems

solving prob-lems and the ability of improvement and transformation (F=39.024

P<0.001). The creative ability of doctoral students in grade three was higher than that of the master students in all grades (F=2.602

P<0.05). The extrinsic motivation was significantly higher than intrinsic motivation (t=4.327

P<0.001)

and the interaction between teachers and students was significantly higher than that among students them-selves (t=6.755

P<0.001). On the institutional category

it showed statistically significant in the training concept

the training subject

the training condition

the intrinsic motivation

the interaction between teachers and students

and the interaction among students themselves (t=-1.962

P<0.05; t=2.697

P<0.01; t=-2.593

P<0.01; t=2.938

P<0.01; t=4.595

P<0.001; t=2.984

P<0.01). The significant predictive effects on improving the creative ability of military pharmacy postgraduates were shown by training concept

training methods

academic atmosphere

intrinsic motivation

interaction between teachers and students

and the interaction among students themselves (F=48.711

P<0.001). Conclusion　The creative ability of military pharmacy postgrad-uates is in the middle level

and the important influencing factors lie in themselves and schools. The edu-cation departments should construct the innovation ability training model from the concept of innovation training

teaching methods

scientific research team

atmosphere of innovation

incentive mechanism and other aspects.