ABSTRACT
Internship plays an important role in the establishment of clinical thinking and humanistic care and contributes to professional knowledge acquisition for the medical students of "5+3" integrative mode.Diseases which belong to general surgical department are most common in daily medical works,and the general surgical department is closely related to other departments.Therefore,the internship in general surgical department has a profound influence on medical students.For the problems prevalent in general surgical interns,such as lack of self-study ability,reclining on books heavily,as well as lack of clinical thinking and humanistic care,solutions are put forward such as establishing learning groups and peer education mode,adopting CBL teaching mode about doctor-patient communications,and improving assessment methods,which help to enhance the abilities of fundamental theory acquisition,clinical operation as well as the communication between doctors and patients for the medical students.