Abstract: Objective To discuss the application and effect of formative assessment in orthopedic undergraduate clinical teaching for undergraduates. Methods To choose 80 clinical medicine undergraduates in grade 2012 of Wuhan University as the research objectwhich were randomly divided into experimental group and control groupwith 40 undergraduates in each group. In orthopedic undergraduate teaching, experimental group was used by the formative assessment, and control group was used by traditional summative evaluation. After teaching finished the result and effect of teaching evaluation were evaluated by the examination and questionnaire survey. Results The examination scores in the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group, which had significant statistical difference (P<0.05). The questionnaire results showed that the scores in the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group and the satisfaction of students in the experimental group was also significantly better than that in the control group, there were significant statistical difference (all P<0.05). Conclusions Formative assessment used in orthopedic undergraduate teaching could improve students’ scores and improve the quality of teaching.

Key words: Formative assessment, Orthopedics, Undergraduates, Clinical Teaching