世界中医药学会联合会（简称:世界中联）是少数几个总部设在中国并由中国政府支持建立的国际学术组织。世界中联通过组织中医药国际考试,将我国成熟的标准,通过一定的程序转化为国际标准,并以标准规范国际中医药从业人员和从业机构是其重要任务之一。本文回顾了中医药国际考试历程,详细阐述了考试的定位与目标,考试标准体系的设计原则与框架,考试的管理体制, 以及相关考试资格审查与认定等。

The Association of World Institutes of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of a few international academic organizations, which is supported by the Chinese government and has its headquarters in China. One of its major tasks is to, by organizing international examinations concerning traditional Chinese medicine, transform our mature standards into international ones through certain procedures and to use these standards to regulate personnel and institutes involved in the examinations. This article reviews the history of international examinations concerning traditional Chinese medicine and gives a detailed explanation of the orientation and objective, the principle and framework of the standard system and the management system of examinations as well as the examination and identification of examinees' qualification.