Abstract: Objective In view of the trend of networking development in modern high education and the characteristics of students’ strong self-learning ability, Peking Union Medical College established a multimedia morphological teaching website from 2013 including human anatomy, neuroanatomy, histology and embryology. Methods According to the teaching demand, the use of the ASP script, combined with Mysql database completed the website development, from the interface design to the curriculum, the syllabus, presentations and laboratory videos uploading. Results Through the questionnaire survey, 45% of the students use website more than 3 times a week, and “course content” column has the highest use frequency (79%). An independent learning platform effect has been achieved. Conclusions After nearly 4 years exploration and practice, multimedia website has become an important part of morphological courses, as a kind of new teaching mode, not only popular for college teachers and students, but also widely used in clinical teaching.

Key words: medical education, autonomous learning, web-based teaching, human anatomy, histology and embryology