This paper analyzed the necessity and feasibility of combining postgraduate education program for clinical medicine major with standardized residency training. Detailed measures for strength-ening the link included specifying the applicants' academic background， improving the validity of the second-round admission test， revising the master degree training program， applying the flexible teaching management， transforming the supervisor recruitment and incentive mechanism， optimizing applicant re-quirements for the medical licensing examination， etc. All these measures were intended to improve the quality of talent cultivation in clinical medicine.