The School of Basic Medical Sciences at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine examines various issues in the mentor-mentee relationship of academic postgraduate students

such as insufficient awareness of the mentor′s primary responsibility

unbalanced mentor-student ratios

inadequate integration of educational resources

misalignment between managers and the managed

and tense mentorship relationships. The study follows postgraduate students through four distinct phases from re-examination selection to graduation and employment. It explores and constructs a new "433" comprehensive mentorship model that uses a "three-dimensional integration" approach for education

where the academic mentor leads

supported by research and industry mentors. The mentorship model has shown to foster harmonious teacher-student relationships

enhance postgraduates′ academic cultivation

professional research capabilities

and scientific practice skills. Additionally

it cultivates and guides students′ ideological

political

moral

and comprehensive qualities

thus contributing to the training of high-level innovative talents in traditional Chinese medicine who are morally and intellectually accomplished.