At present, the research on the red doctors’ spirit mainly focuses on the historical research, the connotation research, the significance research and the inheritance path research of the red doctors’ spirit. From the current research status, it can be found that the core connotation of the red doctors’ spirit needs to be further refined, the research depth needs to be further deepened, the research breadth needs to be further expanded, and the attention to the real society needs to be further enhanced.

The red doctor spirit is a precious spiritual wealth formed in the great practice of the Chinese Communist Party leading the Chinese revolution and creating and developing people’s health undertakings. It is also an important cultural resource for nurturing medical students’ professional identity. The red doctor spirit provides cognitive resources and spiritual guidance for the formation of medical students’ professional identity， prompting medical students to form emotional identity， value identity， and behavioral identity with the profession of doctor， there by enabling medical students to more clearly understand their own missions and development goals， enhance their confidence in engaging in medical and health work， and strengthen their beliefs in working hard for the construction of a healthy China. In practice， to further enhance the leading power of the red doctor spirit in the formation of medical students’ professional identity， it is essential to deepen classroom teaching of the red doctor spirit to provide theoretical guidance； to strengthen the clinical practice of the red doctor spirit to provide practical guidance； and to foster a campus cultural atmosphere infused with the red doctor spirit ， enabling medical students to naturally develop a sense of identification with the medical profession through immersive cultural influence.