【Abstract】Objective To explore the applications of standardized patients teaching method in clinical practice teaching effect for students majoring rehabilitation therapy in the course of occupation therapy.Methods The 2013 classes of rehabilitation therapy specialty in our college were selected as the subjects of study in the two classes

Class 1 was taught by the traditional teaching method

while Class 2 was taught by the standardized patients (SP) teaching method. After learning，we made an analysis of two classes through the form of theory questions，practical operation and the questionnaire to evaluate the teaching effect. Measurement data using two sample mean t test after SPSS software for statistical analysi.Results taught by the SP teaching method students the skills test and questionnaire scores are better than traditional teaching group

and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05); Theory questions SP teaching group performance were better than traditional teaching group

but there was no statistically significant difference.Conclusions standardized patients(SP) teaching in occupation therapy application effect is better than the traditional teaching to improve students' ability of analysis and judgment

operation skill and communication level practice and can be extended to other clinical teaching of rehabilitation therapy specialty．