The Third Military Medical University promotes the scientific research ability of the eight-year clinical medicine students through accurately fixing cultivation objectives， reasonably arranging teaching， implementing supervisor group for many-to-one teaching， carrying out plentiful innovative re-search projects， establishing reading system of scientific research papers， setting up scientific research innovation courses and setting up the credit system for innovative education. Eight-year program is signifi-cantly better than the five-year program in cultivating abilities of problem-discovering， researching and thesis writing.