West China Medical School recruits graduate assistants to take part in the teaching activities as assistants to help teachers to implement the inquiry-small class mode in medical courses. Lecture group discussion is used as a new teaching model and formative assessment is used as assessment methods

which are explored with the help of graduate assistants with the supervision of teachers. Meanwhile

useful teaching resource is richened on the course web sites and the students’ self-study ability is developed by graduate assistants. Graduate assistants effectively help to harmonize teacher-student relationships and enhance teaching quality and efficiency of inquiry-small course.