Abstract: With the degree of enrollment of postgraduates in medical specialty expanding year by year, medical colleges have been exposed the deficiencies in the education of professional degree, which is paying more attention to clinic but less to scientific research. Postgraduate students have weak scientific awareness and less enthusiasm. This study forward on reforming the teaching model and incentive strategy based on the questionnaire survey. The purpose was to encourage the professional degree postgraduate students to be involved in scientific research initiative, innovation ability, and improve the quality of postgraduate education.

Key words: Medicine, Professional degree, Scientific research innovation, Incentive mechanism