Objective　To understand employment status of the eight-year program medical graduates from different medical colleges and put forward reasonable proposals on the current prob-lems. Method　Through questionnaire

we conducted research among eight-year program medical graduates of three different grades (Grade 04

05

06) on the general condition of employment

research level

actual working time

expectations and actual salary

satisfaction with jobs and so on. Data statis-tics was done by Excel 2007. Totally

our research involved 11 medical colleges and 389 questionnaires. Results　94.34% (367/389) of the eight-year program medical graduates work in top three hospitals. The top five factors affecting the employment were reputation of the school 86.38% (336/389)

reputation of the Principal Investigator 66.83% (260/389)

social relations 60.15% (234/389)

scientific research level 52.96% (206/389) and gender 46.79% (182/389). The amount of published papers from those graduates and their satisfaction with jobs vary greatly. Conclusion　Eight-year program medical grad-uates employment faces both opportunities and challenges

and a clear training objective and improve-ment of continuing medical education system for the eight-year program medical graduates will have great significance on the promotion of their employment.