Modern medicine is being transferring from traditional "empirical medicine" to more scientific "evidence-based medicine", which embodies the idea that clinical research is a primary motive that keeps medical practice continuously developing. Therefore, the contemporary aim of medical education should focus on attaching great importance to and strengthen the training of medical students' clinical scientific research ability. Based on clinical departments, we have built an open research project platform for volunteers for medical students before engaging in medical practice. Through a spirally-progressing teaching mode of "Training-Practice-Assessment-Retraining" for medical students before engaging in medical practice, the platform provides training on the knowledge and skills of evidence-based medicine and clinical scientific research. Through the volunteers' active and omnibearing practice, this project achieves some good outcomes in teaching and learning experience. This extracurricular teaching mode provides a platform for scientific research volunteers with the capacity for more knowledge before engaging in medical practice, which is recommended to empower the students with ability of scientific research.
Medical education is undergoing the transition from traditional classroom teaching to more diversified " inside-and-outside-class collaborative teaching”, that is, extracurricular teaching has become an important supplement to medical education. The academic societies of medical students are important platforms in medical education. With the increasing of academic societies in medical colleges, the coordination and balance between community construction and student development requires deep thinking and investigation. The society should develop under the ideas of " following the initial intention - realizing transformation - promoting innovation”. The society-based extracurricular teaching should be performed in the manner of capacity-directing " translational teaching”. The society needs to carry out the " personalized and advanced” training to improve the scientific research or innovation capacity of individual medical student. This paper aims to discuss key points on the construction and management of academic society of medical students at the micro-level, to provide references for single society’s development.