Functional experiment plays an important role in understanding the mechanisms of diseases and principles of diagnosis and treatment. It requires students to master basic skills of func-tional operation

and complicated disciplines of functional alteration as well. Thus functional experi-ment needs to be an open course. The use of the virtual reality (VR) and real-time recording tech-niques provides potential for this exploration. By the way of real-time recording system

HD video of experiment operation is played

which helps guiding students to learn basic experiment skills; while based on the development status of VR technology

it is more applicable for learning by oneself

such as preview before the class and review for the test

and furthermore

the advantage of VR technique will be more apparent

if the key development focuses on experiment extensions to disclose more compli-cated functional alterations. This new technique helps to improve teaching effects of functional experi-ment.