In order to improve medical students' cognition of neurosurgery specialty and clinical practice

and cultivate students' self-learning ability

the model of flipping classroom combined with problem based learning was applied in clinical teaching in our department. The experimental group adopted flip classroom combined with PBL which penetrated the pre-class teaching design

classroom activity design

after-class summary and teaching feedback

while the control group adopted the traditional teaching method. The evaluation results showed that the students in the experimental group had significantly higher scores in-class knowledge and examination results than those in the control group. In addition

students had a high degree of recognition and satisfaction with the newly combined teaching model. The combination of flipped classroom and PBL teaching method could make up their deficiency

complement each other to achieve the best clinical teaching effect and improve students comprehensive ability. Meanwhile it puts forward new requirements for students and teachers

during which teachers need to be fully prepared and update teaching concepts for the sake of fulfilling the mutual promotion of teaching and learning.