The lifelong teaching and learning abilities based on training the core competency of ophthalmology residents is a new hot spot in the curriculum design of ophthalmological standardized residency training. In the standardized residency training base of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University Ophthalmic Center

a graded lecturer training curriculum with residents as core has been designed to train the critical thinking

active learning

summarizing and presenting skills of residents at all levels. According to the different tasks

the residents can present themselves through online and offline platforms so that they can gradually grow into different levels of lecturers. Through the graded training of lecturers from low level to high level

step by step

the residents are trained as active learners from the thinking mode

become student-instructors or lecturers from the teaching ability

and be more competent for future study and work.