案例教学是一种开放式的教学方法，运用于临床诊断学实践教学中可以促使教师课堂角色的转变，同时能促进医学生积极参与，加深医学生对医学概念的理解，是具有创新性和探索性的有效教学手段。案例教学不仅注重教师与学生的课堂互动，激发学生的学习兴趣，也能帮助其理解和记忆诊断学基本概念，启发其自主学习，促进学生临床思维和临床决策能力的培养。案例教学需要注重培养有临床实践经验的教师，注重教学理念的更新，注重医学知识的综合运用，更注重医学生从吸收医学知识到运用临床技能的有效转化。

The case teaching is a kind of open teaching method, which is applied in the practice teaching of clinical diagnostics.It can transform the role of teachers in the classroom activities, and promote the medical students to actively participate in the classroom, deepening the medical students′ understanding of the medical concepts.It is innovative and exploratory mean of effective teaching.Case teaching not only pays attention to interaction between the teacher and the students in the classroom, stimulating students′ interests during learning, helping them to understand and memorize the basic concepts in diagnostics, but also inspires their autonomous learning as well as promotes the cultivation of the students′ ability of clinical thinking with clinical decision making.Case teaching needs the concerns of the teachers′ training with clinical practice experience, updating teaching ideas, focusing on the integrated use of medical knowledge, and the transformation from medical knowledge to clinical skills.