Abstract: Objective To study the application effect of role-playing teaching method in respiratory internal medicine teaching.Methods The reach objects were 60 TCM internship postgraduates in the respiratory of First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM. They were divided into two groups. The control group had 30 postgraduates and used traditional teaching, while the experimental group also had 30 postgraduates and used role-playing teaching. After internship, the effect of role-playing teaching method was gained by theory examination, clinical ability assessment and questionnaire survey.Results There were no significant differences between the experimental group and the control group students in the theory scores before and after the internship(all P＞0.05), experimental group was better on clinical ability improvement(t=7.354, P＜0.05). Questionnaire survey results showed that experimental group was better than control group on improvement of self-learning ability and ability to solve practical problems. In addition, the difference in knowledge digesting and doctor-patient communication was statistically significant(all P＜0.05). However, difference of teaching method acceptance between two groups was not statistically significant(t=0.158, P>0.05).Conclusions Role-playing teaching method can motivate the students' subjective initiative,improve the ability of clinical practice and was more helpful to the clinical thinking training of TCM postgraduate.

Key words: Role-playing teaching method, Clinical practice, TCM postgraduate, Application