The rapid development of China's medical education makes great contribution to the building of physician workforce in the country. Chinese physicians play a vital role in effectively treating COVID-19 , pandemic prevention and control. Nevertheless, medical education in China are also faced with a number of challenges, including inadequate number of students, weakness in public health and preventive medicine education, neglect of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, insufficient online study resources. To address these issues, the scale of education still needs to be expanded in order to train more healthcare providers. Meanwhile, public health and preventive medicine education should be strengthened and medical students should be equipped with more knowledge on zoonotic infectious diseases. More investments should be poured into experimental teaching in medical microbiology and the development of virtual simulation experiment teaching. Furthermore, more efforts should be made to construction of strengthen online curriculum resources with the integration and combination of online and offline teaching. The evaluation system for the cultivation of medical professionals should also be reformed in order to promote the capacity building of of clinical and teaching skills.