With the development of social economy, more and more attention has been paid to the training of high-quality postgraduates in plastic surgery. At present, plastic surgery teaching is still dominated by traditional teaching methods. How to use various teaching methods to achieve the expected teaching objectives is an important task for teachers. In order to cultivate the independent research spirit of postgraduates and improve their clinical practice ability and comprehensive quality, PBL and CBL teaching mode was applied to the clinical teaching of postgraduates in plastic surgery with a view to improving the effect of clinical teaching.