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China lets clinical medicine students graduate without a thesis

Issued the 22 October 2026 pilot policy

On 22 October 2026, a team of government-appointed education advisers released draft rules letting professional master's and doctoral students in clinical medicine graduate with a practical achievement instead of a thesis. A student could now submit an analysis of a special clinical case, or an investigation into a problem facing a medical institution, and defend that instead of a dissertation.

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