Exploration and Practice of Cultivating Innovative Talents in Pharmaceutical Specialty Based on Deep Integration of Industry–University–Research

Innovation is an important approach to boost economic development and social advances, and innovative talents are the cornerstone of the development of the pharmaceutical industry. Conventional pharmaceutical education is not, however, tightly interconnected with current developments because pharmaceutical training lacks practicality and innovation. A deep integration of industry–university–research (IUR) would be a significant approach to solve this issue. In view of this, the School of Pharmacy of Jilin Medical University has thus integrated its own specialized characteristics with regional industrial strength to build a “one core, three chains, and four platforms” talent training mode, with “IUR collaborative education” as the core, “knowledge chain–capability chain–quality chain” as the inner spiral, and “teaching platform–research platform–enterprise platform–social platform” as the external spiral. Under the background of the deep integration of IUR, the quality of talent training is comprehensively improved by taking the “Double Hundred–double Entering” action as an opportunity (100 entrepreneurs enter the campus and 100 doctoral faculty members enter enterprises), relying on the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry College, using scientific research feedback teaching as the driving force and projects and competitions as the starting point. This cultivation pattern has achieved positive results in practice and effectively improved the training quality of innovative talents in our university. It can provide a reference for the talent cultivation of related majors in similar universities.