Abstract: “Task driven method” was applied to explore the curriculum of Chinese medical information retrieval teaching practices. Firstly the teaching design was optimized, the course was divided into four links such as “proposed tasks-analysis task-to complete the task-summary task”. And the corresponding feedback and assessment mechanism were carried out. The research showed that this teaching mode could improve students' autonomous learning ability and information literacy of Chinese medicine comprehensively.

Key words: Task driven method, the curriculum of Chinese medical information retrieva, teaching reform