Abstract: Objective To explore the application of online teaching in the education of stomatology for medical students of eight-year program and evaluate the outcomes. Methods A total of 106 students from the eight-year program (enrolled in 2013 and 2014) in Peking Union Medical College applied online teaching of stomatology and a questionnaire-based research was conducted. Results The online teaching of stomatology was carried out smoothly and 77.8% of the students thought that online teaching had achieved the same learning outcome of traditional teaching, 66.7% of the students hoped to continue online teaching in the future. Most students thought 90-120 minutes was suitable for each course. The average score of teaching feedback was (90.1±8.2).But 60.3% of students preferred to a traditional off-line teaching. There were weakness of online teaching that were found. Conclusions On line teaching can guarantee the teaching quality for the medical students, but still has some defects.

Key words: online teaching, stomatology, clinical medicine