Abstract: As China continues to promote innovative development in medical education, enhancing the innovative awareness and capabilities of undergraduate medical students has become an essential requirement for cultivating top-notch innovative talents in higher education. Experimental surgical science serves as a bridge course connecting basic medical science and clinical medicine. However, the current challenges in this course include a lack of diversity in teaching methods, insufficient integration of ideological and political education, rigid clinical thinking among students, a lack of innovative awareness, non-standardized technical operations, and a single evaluation system. By reforming teaching concepts, models, and methods, updating course content, developing patented teaching tools, utilizing digital course resources, opening laboratories, and improving a diversified evaluation system, these measures not only enhance teaching quality but also ensure standardized teaching by instructors and standardized operations by students. These efforts effectively stimulate students' interest in learning and innovative thinking, further improving their clinical thinking abilities, practical skills, innovative capacities, and self-learning abilities. This approach achieves the dual objectives of talent cultivation and education, providing valuable insights for the cultivation of interdisciplinary and innovative medical talents.

Key words: top-notch innovative medical talents, medical education, teaching reform, practical exploration