As an important aspect of medical education

medical humanities education should be carried out in accordance with current situation. In this paper

existing problems and opportunities for development of medical humanities education were analyzed with SWOT analysis on the basis of the current situation

and a series of suggestions and countermeasures such as SO development strategy

WO striving strategy

ST expansion strategy and WT conservative strategy

were put forward. This paper applied SWOT analysis specifically for the study of management to analyze the current situation and existing problems in medical humanities education

and proposed measures including accelerating the construction of academic exchange platforms such as medical humanities journal

fully employing practical advantages of humanities education

strengthening the construction of its hidden curriculum as well as enhancing medical humanities education in clinical teaching

which are all useful countermeasures and suggestions for the development of medical humanities education.