Abstract: Most rehabilitation therapists in China are graduates from the major of rehabilitation therapeutics, which focuses highly on training in skills and capacities. However, problems still exist in its overall product as well as process, such as the disconnect between the genuine and expected competency level of graduates, the dissonance between education in theory and training in practice, and discordance of medical education in schools and in hospitals. Based on this, the Rehabilitation Therapeutics program in Shanghai Sanda University cooperated with Shanghai General Hospital and developed a ″2+1+1″ system, which is a three-phase training model, based on a real integration of theory and practice as well as a set of clinically oriented course system. Meanwhile, mechanism for deepening cooperation was implemented and teacher-group in ″bi-positioning″ was set for student education. This model has effectively improved the quality of professional development and talent training, shortened the identity formation process from students to rehabilitation therapist and provided experience and reference for the cultivation of applied talents in rehabilitation therapy.

Key words: Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation therapeutics, Applied talent, University and hospital cooperation, Talent training model, Theory-practice integration