Practice operation should be valued in teaching basic medical elective course

The present advantage and disadvantage or problems of basic medical sciences elective courses in college and university are analyzed and indicated.Meanwhile,the experience of teaching optional course of the clinical applied anatomy of heart has been presented,including reforming teaching method,combining the anatomical theory with the clinical specialty,especially boosting the interesting in the course and medical research,encouraging students to do more dissection and culturing their competence in learning and following closely the trends of medical science and technology development.The new teaching style received a better teaching effect and improved the teaching quality. The significance that the teachers should pay more attention to practice training in their teaching students of optional courses has been positively emphasized. Key words: Basic medical elective course;  Teaching reform;  Dissection practice operation; The clinical applied anatomy of heart