Cultivation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) classic clinical thinking and its application are essential for the improvement of clinical competency of TCM students. At present
it has a low proportion of students who can skillfully use classic theories and prescriptions. Therefore
the formation of TCM classics teaching model and method which can effectively improve the ability of TCM classic thinking and practical application has become a strong help to improve students' competency. On the basis of clearly transforming the application of TCM classic clinical thinking into teaching goal
the reform of TCM classic teaching increases the guidance of skill knowledge and values by adjusting the proportion of teaching content and developing classic morning reading
enhance the guidance of skills and values and consolidate the mastery of memorial knowledge
and adopts progressive three-stage classic teaching method with bisection classroom as the core at the same time. The results show that students' ability of memorizing and applying TCM classics has been obviously improved
and their clinical competency has been improved to a certain extent