Abstract: It is very important for university students to cultivate and practice socialist core values, and medical students will be responsible for protecting people‘’s health. Based on the current situation of medical schools ideological and political education, combined with the fundamental question of “for whom to train people, what to train and how to train people”, the series of education and teaching reform in Capital Medical University, for example, takes the curriculum ideological and political teaching reform as an opportunity to actively promote its teaching practice, in order to strive to train new people who can be competent for socialist medical and health care. Capital Medical University has set a new stage in the cultivation of the socialist core values of medical students by using the dialectical materialist viewpoint and methodology to scientifically plan the medical personnel training program and to expand the medical education and teaching approaches, has made achievements in cultivating the socialist core values of medical students.

Key words: medical students in the new era, socialist core values, ideological and political education