In West China Medical School of Sichuan University, the practice and exploration of the medical curriculum construction of "inquiry-class" teaching mode has been implemented with the support of the school since the spring semester of 2013. As a result a series of achievements have been made through the recruitment of graduate assistants to participate in auxiliary teaching in the mode of "large class teaching - small group discussion", as well as the reform of assessment methods and implementation of formative evaluation plus building effective assessment and management mechanism for curriculum.
" Inquiry-small class” teaching mode is a novel teaching method aimed at cultivating the clinical capability and professionalism and promoting comprehensive development of medical students. Small-class teaching mode prioritize students and promotes deep interaction between teaching and learning. Therefore, integrating small class teaching into large class teaching is essential. This paper attempts to explore the applications and prospects of " Inquiry-small class” teaching mode in clinical medicine education through summarizing teaching concept and design, learning resources, exam reform, teacher-student interaction and other aspects of the course " endocrine and metabolic disease (bilingual)”, offered by West China School of Medicine in Sichuan University, so as to provide more reference for the future " Inquiry-small class” teaching reform.