Taking Xiamen Medical College's combination of P.E. and medicine as an example

we aimed to investigate the students' needs by means of questionnaire

expert interviews

mathematical statistics and other empirical research methods. In the course of the reform started with the adjustments in the follow-ing three aspects

physical education course

the number of classes offered

and the faculty. The results showed that students' interests in learning were generally increased. Among the students

86% were inter-ested in the yoga class

and 77% in the Health Qigong class. 53.33% and 26.67% of the students believed that the yoga class is quite or relatively rewarding respectively

10.00%% and 46.67% held that the Health Qigong class is quite or relatively rewarding respectively

suggesting that the combination of P.E. and medicine in medical colleges and universities can stimulate students' interests in learning and further facil-itate the students' lifelong physical education. Moreover

there is no need to introduce additional professional teachers

which is not restricted by the original teachers. The majority of students' feedback on teaching is excellent

but there are also some deficiencies in the course contents

which need to be further improved.