ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the effect of orthopedic sub-discipline rotation mode in the postgraduate orthopaedic education. Meth-ods Randomly selected orthopaedic postgraduate students from grade 2011 and grade 2012 (30 students each grade). Students from grade 2011 went through the traditional teaching mode,and students from grade 2012 adopted 2 months of rotation in each sub-discipline. The clini-cal examination results and teaching satisfaction of the two groups were analyzed. Results The clinical examination results and teaching sat-isfaction of students from the two grades showed statistically differences (P<0. 05). Conclusion Orthopaedic sub-discipline rotation teach-ing mode improved the postgraduates in different ways such as orthopaedic theoretical knowledge, clinical skills, case analysis and so on. Meanwhile,the new teaching mode can get students more satisfied.