Objective To explore the application of standardized patients (SP) in practice course of diagnostics.Methods The two classes of 135 students majoring in clinical medicine were selected as research.After the practical course in inquiry,the questionnaires were used to compare the teaching effect between the traditional teaching and SP teaching.Meanwhile,the students evaluated and gave feedback on SP work.Results The questionnaires on teaching effect showed that 127 (94.8％) students believed that the SP teaching method could stimulate interest in inquiry,125 students (93.3％) thought it could increase the understanding and memory of the inquiry content.127 students (94.8％) thought it could improve the application ability of the inquiry method,128 students (95.5％) thought it could improve inquiry techniques,129 students (96.3％) thought it could enhance expression ability,89 students (66.4％) thought it could enhance cooperation with their classmates,117 students (87.3％) thought it could enhance the confidence in communication,115 students (85.8％) thought it could improve their ability in independent thinking and self-study,126 students (94.0％) thought it could improve the learning effect,117 (87.3％) students thought it could develop their clinical thinking ability,116 students (86.6％) thought it could improve the satisfaction to teaching form,111 students (82.8％) thought it could develop the ability to answer patients' problems in a manner which is easy for patients to understand,and 126 (94.0％) students thought it could improve the ability to interact with patients.All issues were significantly better than the traditional teaching method Compared with the traditional teaching method,the students' choices on various items have statistically significant differences (P＜0.05).Conclusion Applying SP teaching to the practice courses of diagnostics is helpful to improve the teaching effect and cultivate students' clinical thinking ability.Thus,it is a promising teaching method in medical undergraduate education and worthy of further discussion and popularization.

Pseudorabies virus(PRV)is the etiological agent of pseudorabies in pigs,which is char-acterized by dyspnea,reproductive disorders,and neurological diseases,and it spreads widely a-round the world.Since 2011,the newly emerged PRV variants have resulted in poor immunity pro-tection of traditional vaccine strains,and the original method of vaccine strain preparation is time-consuming and labor-intensive.Therefore,it is urgently needed to develop an efficient screening method of the vaccine strain at present.Using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology in this study,two single guide RNAs(sgRNA)were designed targeting the virulence gene TK of PRV variant strain CH/JX/2016,and then the enhanced green fluorescent protein the reporter(EGFP)gene was inserted at the TK locus by a homologous repair plasmid.After multiple rounds of plaque puri-fication,the rPRV-ΔTK/EGFP strain was obtained.The results showed the cleavage efficiency of the two sgRNAs was extremely high.The preparation of rPRV-ΔTK/EGFP strain was succeed af-ter only three rounds of purification,and the EGFP expressed normally.The CRISPR/Cas9 system can edit the PRV gene simply,rapidly,and efficiently,and exhibits great potential in the construction of vaccine candidate strains.Meanwhile,the rescued rPRV-ΔTK/EGFP strain not only could be used as a tracer strain in PRV variant infection progresses,but also for subsequent antivi-ral drug screening.