Abstract: The professional development of fundamental education teachers is not only concerned with the professional and career development of the fundamental education teachers, but also beneficial to the improvement of teaching staff quality of higher education, humanity education of medical students as well as higher medical education. By adopting research methods of literature review, questionnaire and in-depth interview, this study investigated the fundamental education teachers’ self-perception of their professional development in general, as well as their status quo, needs and problems in their own courses of professional development. In addition, the influence of support, responsibility, learning, practice and innovation on the professional development of fundamental education teachers were analyzed. The study shows that management orientation, teamwork support and individual development should be enhanced to improve fundamental education teachers’ professional development.

Key words: Fundamental education, Teachers, Professional development, Self-perception