To improve the clinical teaching work, the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was first introduced into the periodontal clinical assessment held by Departments of Periodon-titis and Mucosal Disease. With the OSCE exam station and item pool established, standardized pa-tients tralned, the examination form reformed, the knowledge, skill, and attitude of the examinee were assessed comprehensively. Compared with traditional exam,the OSCE evaluated the examinee's skills on clinical admissions, history collection, treatment plan development better. Most examinee have got satisfactory result (pass rate: 86.4 %, 19/22; good rate: 36.4%, 8/22; excellent rate: 9.1%, 2/22). The feedback of the following questionnalre also showed that most of the candidates thought the OSCE helpful to promoting the learning of theoretical knowledge (87.5%, 14/16) and good for converting the learned knowledge and skills into occupation ability (87.5%, 14/16).

AIM:To investigate the effect of recombinant lentiviral vector for RNA interference (RNAi) on the expression of fatty acid-binding protein 5 (FABP5) gene in hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 cells and tumor formation in nude mice.METHODS:RNAi lentiviral vector was used in the experiment.Human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 cells were divided into 3 groups:the HepG2 cells in experimental group were transfected with the recombinant lentivirirus vector LV-shRNA-FABP5, the cells in negative control group were transfected with a control lentiviral vector LV-shRNA-NC, and the cells in normal control group were without any treatment.The nude mice were randomly divided into 3 groups.The growth of the transplanted tumor cells in the nude mice was observed.The tumor growth curve, volume and weight were de-termined 4 weeks after the cell inoculation.The expression of FABP5 was detected by real-time PCR, Western blot and im-munohistochemical staining.RESULTS:Transfection of the lentiviral vector FABP5-shRNA obviously reduced FABP5 ex-pression in the HepG2 cells.Tumor formation was all positive in the 3 groups of the nude mice inoculated with the tumor cells.Compared with normal control group and negative control group, the tumor growth slowed significantly in experimental group with smaller volume and weight.FABP5 expression in the transplanted tumor tissues was significantly down-regulated at mRNA and protein levels in experimental group as compared with normal control group and negative control group. CONCLUSION:RNAi-induced down-regulation of FABP5 effectively inhibits the growth of transplanted hepatocellular carcinoma, suggesting that FABP5 gene may be an effective target for gene therapy in treating liver cancer.