Abstract: Coronary artery disease is the key point in teaching cardiovascular disease. The variety of clinical manifestation of acute myocardial infarction (AMI ) makes differential diagnosis complex, which is always the difficult point but essential in teaching medical students. One of the challenges encountered in the AMI-learning process for medical students is to understand and remember the basic knowledge of AMI correctly. Mnemonic devices are one of the most important methods used, helping learners to remember quickly. In the current review, we recommended tutors to use the mnemonic methods frequently in teaching the AMI to help students improve understanding and memory, with the technique of psychology, including acronym, memory for digits, position memory, pithy mnemonic formula, harmonic and association.

Key words: mnemonic, acute myocardial infarction, teaching