Taking medicine as an example, what is a professional graduate student and what is an academic graduate student?

Professional training is mainly oriented to clinical skills. Postgraduate students generally rotate in hospitals, and they have to be on duty independently and take care of patients. Previously, they mainly faced on-the-job doctors, but now they are recruiting full-time students and the proportion of them is gradually increasing.

the academic type is the traditional graduate student, who mainly engages in scientific research and experiments at the graduate stage, and usually stays in the laboratory.

Academic graduate students have higher thesis requirements, while professional students have to pass the clinical skills examination, and the thesis requirements are relatively low.

In terms of employment, there is not much difference between them, but now some big hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai only need professional graduate students.

Generally speaking, there is a clear distinction between better medical colleges and universities, and academic ones rarely have the opportunity to go to clinic. But professional students have to pay tuition fees, and scientific students are free of tuition fees. Doing scientific research is beneficial to your future development. After all, you need articles for promotion. Therefore, when you choose, you should consider your own interests and family economic situation comprehensively.

By the way, other majors may reject professional degrees. But medicine, after all, is a practice-oriented discipline, so professional degrees are also very popular now, and students with professional degrees have great advantages in clinic.