The development and reform of social medicine course in medical education

The major purpose of social medicine teaching is to help medical students establish the concept and model of thinking about social medicine.It is crucial for the improvement of quality of students to guide medical sanitary practice with the guidance of bio-psycho-social medical model.Improving and reinforcing social medicine course construction in higher medical education is the extremely important content that carries quality education and cultivates enterprising spirit, and also a significant movement that deepens medical educational reform.As the medical model shifts from that sanitary plays the guidance role,it is a necessary choice form to strengthen the teaching of social medicine. Key words: Social medicine;  Medical education;  Curriculum reform