Abstract: Under the background of internet plus era, Chinese medicine industry is in urgent need of innovative and entrepreneurial talents. At present, the teaching mode of Chinese medicine is largely traditional, which has many problems, such as students low learning enthusiasm, weak innovation consciousness and ability, etc. The influence of COVID-19 epidemic has brought certain challenges to the teaching effect of Chinese medicine. In order to achieve the training goal of cultivating innovative talents of traditional Chinese medicine, it is of great significance to construct a teaching mode based on flipped classroom that is suitable for the specialty of traditional Chinese medicine to improve students learning interest and cultivate students self-study ability and innovation ability. This paper discusses the new teaching mode from the aspects of combining online teaching platform, organizing teaching activities and improving evaluation methods, which will provide a useful reference for the teaching reform of Chinese medicine.

Key words: Traditional Chinese medicine, teaching reform, flipped classroom, innovative ability