This study explores the application of animation in medical teaching. On the one hand

the status quo of the application of animation in medical teaching was analyzed by conducting questionnaire survey for the effect of animation-enhanced teaching of the biology course; on the other hand

new animations were made by the researchers to analyze its effect on the students' self-study. The results showed that the scores of the students receiving text and teaching animation resources were significantly higher than that of students receiving only textual information in the learning process (P<0.01)

and the same goes for the number of the students that complete the >75% of the learning content. The results showed that the teaching animation can improve the students' self-study performance and raise their interest in self-study.