Since 2016

enrollment of students for optometry & ophthalmology specialty of five-year program has expanded in China

and China Medical university has become the pioneer to recruit students to this major in Northeast China. With reference to our national situation

this paper focuses on how to help students form good professional ethics

gain professional knowledge

professional skills and scientific research ability

so as to enable them not only grasp basic theories and skills of clinical medicine

but also be skilled at optometry & ophthalmology; the construction of systematic curriculum of optometry & ophthalmology should be actively explored with the aim of comprehensive medical education as the foundation

systematic education of optometry & ophthalmology as its unique feature and education of humanistic medicine as the concept. Therefore

we innovatively put forward a teaching model of basic-core of clinical medicine-professional direction and characteristic development courses

thus to provide a reference for training applied and compound Optometrists and ophthalmologists who are urgently in need at present in China.