Abstract:

The red doctor’s spirit, formed in the Revolutionary War Time, and it is the specific embodiment of Jinggangshan spirit and Yan'an Spirit in medical and health undertakings. It includes the connotation of “political firmness, saving the dying and healing the wounded, hard work and selfless dedication”. The red doctor’s spirit still has its significance in the new era. It not only provided spiritual strength in the COVID-19 period, but also will play a guiding role in the post epidemic era. Integrating the red doctor’s spirit into the medical humanities course will help medical students establish lofty ideals, beliefs and value pursuit. It is the need to explore the path of integration in order to help students internalize and externalize the connotation of the red doctor’s spirit into their mind and action. This paper will suggest that we could use the mode of selecting teaching forms according to the connotation of red doctor’s spirit, so as to cultivate the medical humanistic quality of firm belief, life first, great medical skill & sincerity and shared common destiny.

Key words: red doctor’s spirit, medical humanities, curricular ideology