“Basic Requirements of Teaching Basic Courses of Computer in Universities” proposed promoting reforms to universities’ computer basic education

whose core is to cultivate the students’ computational thinking ability

infiltrating the essential thinking method of computational science in content and design of the course. Tianjin Medical University began the research in 2013 and performed the teaching reform in 2016.The teaching reform distinguished different levels of students according to a proficiency test

implemented graded teaching

and introduced MATLAB in the course of program design

performed modular teaching according to the students’ professional. All courses implemented small class teaching to improve the students medical practical ability

and introduced network-based test. The reform results showed that most students understood the meaning of the computational thinking and new test was more closed to practical application Revised test had scores of students higher than traditional one

The students from the revised test had the score of (80．97±5．81)

while the traditional test had the score of(78．70_+7.42)

it had statistical significance .The paper introduces the specific measures and accumulated experience from several aspects of the reform

hoping to have some reference for the teaching of computer basic course in medical universities.