Abstract: The scientific research competence of clinical postgraduates is obviously weak. The goal of the nation to train clinical doctor with high-quality requires to improve the doctor’s scientific research abilities. To meet this goal, we believe the short-term training and practice for clinical postgraduate candidates on basic scientific research is still necessary. The project-based basic research is an appropriate training mode which can significantly improve the clinical postgraduate candidates’ scientific thinking and capability. In this article, the advantage and limitation of this training mode will be further elucidated based on our previous discussion on this topic.(Ophthalmol CHN, 2014, 23: 354-356)

Key words: clinical postgraduate candidate, scientific thinking, scientific research competence, basic scientific research