Teaching reform of clinical practice in pediatrics

Objective: To reform the traditional teaching methods for clinical practice in pediatrics in order to cultivate more talents in pediatrics to meet the needs of development in tertiary medical education.Methods: Improving the quality evaluation system in teaching and strengthening the training program on teachers' comprehensive abilities and meanwhile attaching great importance to medical humanistic education to cultivate students' ability of communication,and adding teaching program targeting on training students' practice skills.Results: Teaching of pediatrics reached the standards of international medical education.Some contents of the program are in line with advanced standard of international medical education.The graduates won high praise and the program of pediatrics was awarded as national distinguished teaching program.Conclusion: The innovative teaching program of clinical practical skills is of great importance for improving medical students' ability of clinical practice.