The higher medical education in China starts late and needs further exploration and improvement. While in Germany

it is elite education with a long history. Compared with China

in curriculum setting

Sociology

Medical health security

Humanities and Social Sciences and Organ sys-tem classification courses are more emphasized

and in terms of degree

it only has Doctor degree but with higher quality in Germany. Higher medical education in China will also take the path of the elite education. We can learn from the German medical education development experience and pay attention to solving the lack of the curriculum by supplementing social medicine and medical health security

increase the autonomy of the instructors in the training process

strengthen the medical students' social responsibility

and improve the quality of higher medical education in China.