Outpatient teaching refers to medical teaching activities carried out in hospital outpatient department, aiming at cultivating medical students' clinical skills and diagnostic ability. It usually includes case discussion, patient rounds, patient demonstrations, etc., and learns the diagnosis and treatment of diseases through actual contact with patients. Follow-up education refers to the doctor's follow-up and guidance to the discharged patients to ensure their rehabilitation and treatment effect. Follow-up education mainly focuses on patients' health management and lifestyle guidance, as well as the evaluation and adjustment of treatment effect. Although follow-up education plays an important role in the medical process, it does not belong to the category of outpatient teaching mode.