Abstract: Objective Rehabilitation medicine has made much progress with a late start, and it requires a lot of knowledge and high operatingskills. The research about teaching and evaluation of the rehabilitation theory and practice is still in lack at present. This research reviewsthe development of taxonomy of educational objectives, and discusses the effect in rehabilitation curriculum applying the newthree-dimension objective model in China. Methods Aiming the rehabilitation students enrolled in college in 2005, this research analyzingquestionnaires and test scores in the end of one term to evaluate the Rehabilitation medicine teaching effect using three-dimension objectivemodel. Results The result of questionnaires and test scores in the end of the term shows most of the students' learning interest, self-learningability and clinical practice skills enhanced by the three-dimension objective model. Conclusion The three-dimension objective model issuitable for rehabilitation teaching, which helps choosing the teaching strategies with the teachers and the learning efficiency with the students.

Key words: three-dimension objective, taxonomy of educational objectives, rehabilitation medicine