ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of basic life support (BLS) intensive training for medical students who have received BLS training within one year. MethodsWe enrolled 865 medical students between January to December 2015 who had received BLS training within one year. These students were divided into three groups [undergraduate upcoming doctor (group A, n=436), postgraduate upcoming doctor (group B, n=197), and undergraduate upcoming medical technician (group C, n=232)] based on their major and educational background. In the study, they received on-the-spot BLS intensive training, and took BLS basic knowledge examination, skill examination and comprehensive capacity test before and after training. During the study, comprehensive capacity was evaluated by training scale including such items as emergency awareness, psychological diathesis, disposal ability, cooperation ability, and operation accuracy. ResultsBLS basic knowledge scores for the above three groups before and after training were respectively 58.9±9.5 vs 93.5±7.6, 52.5±4.5 vs 90.3±3.5, 54.8±5.3 vs 88.5±4.5, and the skill scores were 58.8±3.2 vs 95.3±1.7, 57.6±4.2 vs 90.5±2.3, 50.9±3.8 vs 93.5±1.8, respectively. The scores after training were significantly better than those before training (P＜0.05). Comprehensive capacity was also improved significantly after intensive training (P＜0.05). ConclusionsEstablishing a BLS intensive training program has important clinical significances for updating and consolidating the emergency knowledge, improving teaching quality and emergency training effect. So it is worth popularizing.