Abstract: Under the guidance of the principles of "morality education","undergraduate education-focused" and "student-centered",this article focuses on the course-opening status of optional courses for students of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the past five years.Based on the analysis of the selection of courses by students of different grades and the score they obtained,the existing problems were further explored in the opening of optional courses in higher institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.Accordingly,the study puts forward countermeasures from the aspects of deep mining of class data,the scientific setting of course categories and specific courses design,along with the establishment of a course resource sharing mechanism,with the purpose to equip students with better curriculum resources and effectively promote students' learning progress and life-long development.