Immunology is a kind of important basic subject for medical education

involving theories and technologies covering many aspects of disease occurrence

diagnosis

prevention and treatment

and is also the source of new means of medical treatment in the future. Therefore

successful teaching of medical immunology is associated with high-level medical undergraduate education. An appropriate textbook is critical for curriculum construction of immunology. However

little analysis of immunology textbooks has been published. We selected several famous and popular English immunology textbooks and compared their teaching objectives

methods

and contents

concluding the features and targeting readers of each textbooks. Our research results could provide some advices for students to learn immunology theory and researchers to utilize immunology methods

and also give a glimpse of the development trend and direction of immunology.