Objective　To investigate and analyze the data of continuing medical education in order to understand the real need of the learners. Methods　Reviewing and making statistic analysis of the data of Renji hospital's continuing medical education courses from 2007 to 2012

including the amount

title

discipline

geographical distribution

training content and the questionnaire survey. Results　It shows that the learners from coastal and developed areas have a higher demand for cut-tingedge technology and the new progress in medicine(49.1%)

while the learners from inland and western regions prefer to learn the basic medical theory and technology (41.9%). Senior doctors tend to study cutting-edge technology and new progress medical courses (51.7%) while the junior persons pre-fer the basic medical knowledge (46.6%). These mean that the needs of content of continuing medical education is associated with the regions and the level of the doctors (P<0.05). Conclusion　The con-clusions prompt that medical development between different regions of China may be unbalanced. Chinese government should pay more attention in terms of allocation of health resources and personnel training. It also provides advice for future courses so that it may improve the efficiency of the medical education resources.