Bringing principal role of medical students into full play to improve practice teaching effect of anesthesiology

Anesthesiology is a high-risk specialty in clinical medicine teaching. In this paper, we analyze the special characteristics of education for anesthesiology based on the present situation and the particularity regarding the cultivation of anesthesiology students. Various learning patterns have been used to motivate students. We also introduce the specific implementation of these methods in the teaching of contents to improve students′ clinical thinking ability to facilitate their role change from medical students to clinicians. Key words: Anesthesiology; Teaching; Clinical practice; Medical students; Main role