Objective To understand the status quo of medical college students participating in the volunteer service behavior to provide the basis for further promoting and perfecting their volunteer service work .Methods 1 773 students in Chongqing Medical University were performed the inventory survey by the self-designed semi-structured questionnaire .Results 93 .3% of respondents were willing to participate in the volunteer service with the actual participation rate of 75 .8% ,among them only 40 .8% of partici-pants received the related volunteer service training .The differences of the participation rate among different majors had statistical significance(P<0 .01) ,the majors of the clinical medicine and the public health were superior to the nursing major ;the participation items and the age limit of the grade 3 students all were superior to those of the grade 2(P<0 .01);the participation rate and the participation items of the female students were superior to those of the male students (P<0 .05) .The present existing problems in the volunteer service were mainly the imperfection of the organization and management ,insufficient publicity and training ,unitary service mode and lacking fund support ,and so on .Conclusion The medical college students have the high enthusiasm to take part in the volunteer service with the better actual participation rate .The differences exist among different majors ,grades and genders .The colleges and the relevant government administrative departments should strengthen the linkage to co-construct the more perfect or-ganization and management system of the volunteer service system .