Integrated medical curriculas are becoming more and more popular in Chinese and abroad medical colleges. In this article

the methods and teaching courses of integrated digestive system course at Shanghai Jiaotong Uviversity School of Medicine was thoroughly introduced from the theoretical course

PBL course

trainee course

assessment method and effect evaluation. The successful practical experience of the integrated digestive system curricula was summarized as follow: strong system guarantee

adequate teacher resource reserve and good feedback mechanism

and the problems in the practice of the curriculum were presented: lack of corresponding textbook and lack of deep running-in between teachers

and these problems were carefully considered in order to providing further ideas for the integration of the digestive system curriculum.