Abstract: Scientific thinking is the essential core quality for medical practitioners. As otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery is a multidisciplinary and highly specialized clinical discipline, doctors need strong scientific thinking ability, thus scientific thinking training is an essential and important part of its teaching. In the clinical teaching, we have explored and practiced a variety of teaching methods based on inspiring students to discover questions to provide systematic scientific thinking training for students, stimulate their interest in scientific research and improve their scientific thinking level and clinical decision-making ability.

Key words: scientific thinking, otolaryngology head and neck surgery, problem based learning, case based learning, team-based learning