Abstract: Vascular surgery is an emerging clinical discipline with a wide range of categories and disease types. In theoretical teaching, a large amount of vivid imaging materials and vascular reconstruction photos are needed to effectively display the clinical manifestation. During internship training, there are not enough patients in the ward to cover common or frequently-occurring diseases of vascular surgery. As a result, development of a clinical case database is of great significance for the teaching of vascular surgery. This article mainly introduces the establishment and preliminary application of a clinical case database in vascular surgery teaching at Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University.

Key words: vascular surgery, teaching, case-based teaching method, database