By analyzing the connotation and research status of life culture, the authors of the article have pointed out that the introduction of life cultural education is a new interpretation of medical humanities education and can give full play to their role as educating people. They have also put for-ward that we should grasp its open and comprehensive characteristics in work, and carry out life cul-tural education comprehensively and by multi-channels. Medical colleges can try to construct scientific cultural education system, design useful education content, set up diversified education platform and carry out the multi-channel and all-round life cultural education from the classroom teaching, practice, campus activities and so on.

Health communication aims to improve public health attitudes and behaviors by propagating health information. It plays an important role in promoting public health literacy and "Healthy China Initiative". The basic theories of health communication include "7 W" and Theory of Planned Behavior. Clinicians with profound medical expertise and a wealth of clinical practice play key roles in the communication, and they hold an unparalleled advantage in health communication by delivering authoritative and trustworthy information to the public. The capacity of health communication among clinicians in the nation is determined by various factors including professional characteristics, policy support, dissemination platforms and pathways, time and effort. Meanwhile, some problems in the research on the health communication capacity of clinicians remain, such as lack of well-established motivation systems, limited dissemination pathways, and imperfect evaluation frameworks. In some regions of China, health communication performance has been considered as part of the professional title evaluation for clinical physicians. Medical institutions and universities have also initiated relevant training and practice programs. It is crucial to improve evaluation frameworks, strengthen training pathways and effectiveness assessment, promote interdisciplinary integration, and enhance the role of clinicians in health communication in the future.