Abstract: The dual tutorial system has been implemented at Zhongshan Medical College, Sun Yat-sen University for undergraduates in basic medicine for many years. It refers to general tutors starting from the second to third academic years and scientific research tutors in the fourth to fifth academic years. The general tutors guide and help students in professional thinking, professional learning, scientific research training and career planning, and train students in basic scientific research training, literature review ability, etc.; while the scientific research tutors are responsible for the guidance of students graduation design, research project implementation, and thesis defense and so on. Through regular selection of excellent tutors, organization of tutor-student meetings, encouraging students to enter the tutor team early, enter the laboratory early, early scientific research projects and other ways, has formed a high-quality tutor team, a number of national student research awards, effectively enhance the students’ interest in scientific research, innovation ability, which had been unanimously praised by teachers and students of the college. Early contact with scientific research has become an important part of our school’s and three “earlies” medical education tradition, and tutorial system has also become an important brand in the undergraduate education and teaching stage of our school. Zhongshan Medical College, Sun Yat-sen University obtained the first batch of strong foundation plan projects in basic medicine specialty in 2020, the tradition has been inherited and developed, and solidified into the content of the training program for basic medicine professionals, which has become one of the powerful measures to promote the implementation of the plan for strengthening basic academic disciplines. This article focuses on how to further develop undergraduate tutorial system in basic medical disciplines combined with the requirements of strong foundation and top-notch talents training.

Key words: basic medicine, top-notch innovative talents, undergraduate tutorial system