Abstract: To cultivate all-round medical talents, apart from the the training of professional medical knowledge and skills, it is also important to strengthen the nurturing of medical humanistic spirit. This paper introduces the exploration made by Foreign Languages Teaching Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We try to incorporate the cultivation of medical humanistic spirit into the training of listening and speaking of medical English through taking the socialist core values as the core and guidance and adopting the way of “empathy”. In the specific teaching practice, we establish different themes concerning the professional ethics, medical ethical relations and social hot events. Then we design four teaching steps, namely “empathy introduction”, “analysis and comment”, “discussion and inspiration” and “simulation and representation” through which realizes the recessive cultivation process from “emotional identification” to “internalization in the heart” and then to “externalization in practice”. In this way, we not only stimulate students' interest in learning, but also enlighten them on medical ethics and medical humanistic spirit.

Key words: Medical English, Empathy, Medical humanities, Core values of socialism, Moral education