Wechat as an emerging social media network

has the characteristics of delivering content in a timely manner

richness in content

convenient and unobstructed transmission channels

communication effect with personality and intelligence. It has an positive effect on medical humanities education

mainly to learn in a mobile learning environment

to strengthen the interaction between teachers and students

students and students; sharing educational resources utilization of public accounts; students and teachers can be equal to participate in the medical humanities education

to jointly promote the development of medical science humanistic education. Meanwhile

Wechat also has the side effects of making medical students excessively depend on Wechat's information and makes them hard to dis-tinguish the true or false information and have to be in a state of blind conformity. Therefore

we must foster its strengths and circumvent weaknesses

and make WeChat truly effective tools to promote the development of medical humanistic education.