Abstract: Objective To investigate the needs and feedback from clinical medical students on the diversified teaching mode adopted by the Department of Endocrinology in Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Methods Questionnaires were distributed to the medicine students who were in clinical rotation in Peking Union Medical College, and the teaching status and teaching effect was investigated. Results A total of 95 valid questionnaires were received. The attending physicians and the teaching resident physicians performed well in the daily teaching activities. The medical students believed that outpatient training was necessary in addition to ward rotations. After the rotation in the endocrinology department, the self-evaluated score of mastery of endocrinology knowledge had been significantly improved, especially in those who rotated in outpatient clinic, suggesting that outpatient teaching was of great significance. In addition, the establishment of a self-learning platform including clinical cases and videos in endocrinology could be used as an important supplementary means for clinical teaching. Conclusions Outpatient training improves learning outcomes of medical students, so must be kept and further strengthened in the future. Building a database of typical clinical cases and teaching videos can improve the training quality.

Key words: department of endocrinology, diversified teaching strategies, teaching effect, questionnaire survey, outpatient teaching