Abstract: Skin is the largest organ of human, which can reflect host's health condition. Dermatovenereology is an important clinical discipline which focus on the profile of morphology. The challenge of learning is too much content but limited teaching hours. As to medical students, they may often feel dull and lose learning interest. How to arouse the enthusiasm and autonomy of medical students, and improve teaching effectiveness is one of difficulties in clinical teaching of dermatovenereology so draw attention by faculty as a potential orientation of education remodeling This paper aims for exploring a new teaching method, ‘diagnosis-initiated mode’, which may stimulate their interest in the learning of dermatovenereology.

Key words: dermatovenereology, teaching current situation, diagnosis-initiated mode, teaching method