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6 August 2026
A New Exploration of Cultivating Clinical Thinking in Rehabilitation Therapy from the Perspective of Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine
Jing Liu ,  Jingyi Yang ,  Zun Wang ,  Juanjuan Peng ,  Dongpan Chen ,  Siyuan Hou ,  Xin Zhang ,  Jielu Xiang ,  Daoming Xu
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1 Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210019, China,
2 School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina & School of Health and Rehabilitation, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China,
3 School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina & School of Health and Rehabilitation, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China,
4 School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina & School of Health and Rehabilitation, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China,
5 Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210019, China,
6 Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210019, China,
7 Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210019, China,
8 Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210019, China,
9 Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210019, China,
JCER 2026 , 10(7), 61–66; https://doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v10i7.15750
© 2026 by the Authors. Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Amid population aging and shifting rehabilitation concepts, society increasingly demands multidisciplinary rehabilitation professionals. Under national policies promoting integrated Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM), rehabilitation therapy education must shift from a “Chinese-Western divide” to an “integrated cultivation” model. The Rehabilitation Therapy program at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, a National First-Class Undergraduate Program, faces bottlenecks such as fragmented curricula, unidirectional teaching, disconnection from practice, and unitary assessment. Guided by “boundary-breaking” and “integration,” we systematically construct a six-dimensional ICWM rehabilitation teaching system covering philosophy, curriculum, instruction, practice, faculty, and assessment. By reshaping an integration-oriented training plan, innovating diversified teaching models, bridging stepwise clinical practice, fostering interdisciplinary faculty, and reforming competency-driven assessment, this system enhances students’ integrated clinical reasoning and practical skills. It provides a systematic, actionable pathway for educational reform in rehabilitation therapy.

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