Objective:To explore the components of medical professionalism among excellent physicians , and discuss the approaches and ways of cultivating professionalism of physicians .Methods: We designed a question-naire, on the basis of literature retrieval , to investigate 50 excellent clinical doctors that came from 8 class 3A hos-pitals in Shanghai .Then we interviewed 20 famous doctors of them , who had good reputation and prestige .Re-sults:The components of excellent physician's professionalism include moral quality character , achievement behav-ior character and interpersonal communication character .And each character consists of a collection of different competencies .Conclusions:There is a stable positive correlativity relationship between the degree of excellence and physician's professionalism .The cultivation of medical professionalism should be based on ability , practice and humanistic quality , and through various ways and measures .