[Sanshan Medical Training School of Fujian in modern times]

TCM education in Fujian started at Sanshan Medical Training School in modern times. Approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in November 1911 and opened on October 5, 1917, the school was established by CHEN Dengkai, a famous doctor in Fujian. CHEN had begun to compile the texts before its establishment. The school had a 4-year education system (3 school terms in a year) and offered 23 courses including TCM and western medicine. Both the course and texts embodied CHEN's TCM-oriented, western medicine-assisted concept, which was also the contemporary trend of confluence of Chinese and western medicine.