Objective　To analyze the influence of modern clinical teaching on nursing students' interpersonal relationship and social adaptability

and discuss the problems of intership

for providing refer-ence for clinical teaching improvement. Methods　A total of 200 nursing students in Tianjin Medical Uni-versity were tested with the general information

interpersonal relationship and social adaptability question-naires by purposive sampling method before and 3 months after the intership respectively. The data of 189 nursing students were collected and then analyzed by SPSS 17.0. Specifically the t test or Mann-Whitney U rank test and Chi-squared test were used to compare the differences of the questionnaire. Results　At the midterm internship

students' interpersonal relationship score (4.19±3.52) was significantly lower than that at the beginning stage (6.55±5.22)

while the social adaptation ability score (18.93±9.52) was significantly higher than that at the beginning stage (10.28±13.12) (P＜0.05). Conclusion　Modern clinical teaching is beneficial for nursing students' interpersonal relationship and social adaptation ability

but not systematic. The more attention should be paid to cultivating nursing students' interpersonal relationship and social adaptation ability during the whole process from classoom teaching to clinical teaching.