The case-based teaching was inserted in the lecture-based teaching in clinical microbiol-ogy. The teachers conducted the case-based teaching through proper selection of cases
leading students to discuss and analyze cases. The students explored and reported from the cases independently. Finally
the teachers summarized and evaluated from the case-based teaching. The combination of case-based teaching and lecture-based study stimulated the students' interest in learning and motivation
consolidated their theoretical knowledge
cultivated their abilities of self-learning and clinical idea
and made the correlation between the theory and the clinical practice closely. These methods improved the teaching quality of clinical microbiology.