Abstract: Preventive medicine is a required course for students majoring in clinical medicine, which is essential for them to understand public health. Teaching teams of Fudan University have focused on the curriculum reform of preventive medicine and kept innovating with the aim of improving the competence of future doctors. Flipped classroom approach was adopted to promote interaction between teachers and students. In addition, a variety of practice sectors were integrated into teaching process, such as diet calculation through graph cards, health risk appraisal practice, hospital visiting. In addition, a 4-weeks community-based practice further strengthened students' understandings of public health in the real world. Much attention was on cultivate scientific spirit, humanity and the capability to serve the people. A multi-dimension, whole-process evaluation is applied and the results shows that the students' comprehensive ability and literacy are significantly improved.