To improve the clinical teaching work

the objective structured clinical examination(OSCE) was first introduced into the periodontal clinical assessment held by Departments of Periodon-titis and Mucosal Disease. With the OSCE exam station and item pool established

standardized pa-tients trained

the examination form reformed

the knowledge

skill

and attitude of the examinee were assessed comprehensively. Compared with traditional exam，the OSCE evaluated the examinee's skills on clinical admissions

history collection

treatment plan development better. Most examinee have got satisfactory result (pass rate: 86.4 %

19/22; good rate: 36.4%

8/22; excellent rate: 9.1%

2/22). The feedback of the following questionnaire also showed that most of the candidates thought the OSCE helpful to promoting the learning of theoretical knowledge (87.5%

14/16) and good for converting the learned knowledge and skills into occupation ability (87.5%

14/16).