The paper sorts out and analyzes papers on medical English teaching and research published in core periodicals of China. The results show that there are various problems: slow research progress

insufficient empirical studies

a shortage of research on teachers and students

a lack of young faculty members and insufficient international perspective. With the increasing requirement for medical students' higher language proficiency imposed by the development of higher medical education in China

this paper puts forward some suggestions based on the analysis of the past ten-year data on medical English teaching and research: to build stronger medical English teaching faculty and to enhance their research competence by means of improving

enlarging and cooperating; to intensify the research into the two subjects in the teaching process: medical English teachers and medical students; and to avoid depending too heavily on questionnaire survey and employ multiple research methods and collect effective data in order to fundamentally improve medical English teaching and research.