Abstract: Standardized patient (SP) serves as an actor, teaching evaluator and mentor in accurately displaying a patient's clinical symptoms, signs and/or medical history in clinical education. However, the strong theoretical and practical nature of otolaryngologyres tricted the contact between medical students and real patients, thus made standardized patient necessary in clinical teaching. Meanwhile, many otolaryngology diseases have markedly subjective symptoms, yet objective examination is difficult to diagnose, ending up in long consultation time, missed key points or conflicts in doctor-patient communication. Many hospitals recruit SP mostly from retirees or people without regular work, who often quit and cause instability of SP teams. Without medical background, SP is difficult to accurately, comprehensively and vividly grasp the clinical manifestations of cases and patients’ psychology in a short term. Therefore, this study introduced the teaching and assessment of the attending physicians as SP in otolaryngology. We found that clinical medical students and teachers gave high and consistent evaluations to SP played by the attending physician and they favor that on-the-spot comments on students’ performance benefit students most in SP teaching process.The model of attending physician as SP will be well applied in the clinical teaching and assessment of otolaryngology head and neck surgery and will be popularized in the standardized training bases of otolaryngology head and neck surgery.