Objective To analyze the current situation and influence factors of ordinary medical college undergraduates' contact with scientific research at early stage in order to provide references for scientific research.Methods Totally 1940 students majoring in clinical medicine,imaging,traditional Chinese medicine and nursing (2008 -2010 grade) in China Three Gorges University were enrolled to do questionnaine and SPSS 17.0 was used to do statistical analysis.Results Totally 1653copies of questionnaires were collected from 1940 students,the recovery rate was 85.21％.Two hundred and nineteen students ( 13.25％ ) participated in scientific research,65.28％ students thought college propaganda to be ordinary,95.43％ students got benefits from scientific research.The main influence factors of scientific research were lack of time (23.73％),insufficient knowledge reserves (22.03％) and researchers' own problems (39.73％).Conclusions Medical school should expand the range of scientific research and strengthen propaganda.Medical students should arrange research time and constantly improve their comprehensive ability so as to achieve good results.