Internship plays an important role in the establishment of clinical thinking and humanis-tic 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 edu-cation 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.