Abstract: Continuing medical education is an important way to improve the ability of medical professionals and enhance the core competitiveness of medical institutions. Through literature research and interview investigation, it can be seen that China's continuing medical education is faced with such problems as unbalanced development, relatively lagging information construction and imperfect supervision and evaluation system. To strengthen the development of continuing medical education, the establishment of standard of continuing medical education, promotion of distance continuing medical education and improvement of the supervision and evaluation system of continuing medical education should be put into emphasis and implemented.

Key words: continuing medical education, guidelines for continuing medical education, supervision and evaluation system