Abstract: Objective To study the implementation and assess effect of the “rain classroom” blending teaching method in the medical parasitology course for students of department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Methods The 2017th grade students of department of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Xinjiang Medical University were selected. The traditional methods was used in the control group; the “rain classroom” blending teaching was implemented in the experimental group. The final comprehensive scores were compared. Results There was a significant difference in the comprehensive scores between the two groups (P＜0.05). Pass rate of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group(P＜0.05). Conclusions The “rain classroom” blending teaching is conducive to improve students'achievement, self-learning capacity and curiosity, so and it is worthy to be applied to support the learning of medical parasitology.

Key words: rain classroom, blending teaching, medical parasitology