Under the background of the continuous development of medical technology, people have set out more requirements for related services. As the future medical workers, medical students not only need to have good professional skills, but also need to have higher communication skills to deal with the doctor-patient relationship. This is one of the important points of reducing medical disputes and building a harmonious society. Traditional teaching doesn't pay much attention to the development environment of medical students, so it ignores the cultivation of doctor-patient relationship awareness and communication skills. This makes many medical students have different problems when they enter the practice link. Clinical teaching is not only the link between theory and practice, but also the core stage of medical students' learning and growth. In this process, it is the basic content of clinical teaching to strengthen the cultivation of communication skills of medical students. Only by strengthening the cognition of doctor-patient relationship of TCM students in clinical teaching, can we make them pay attention to the importance of doctor-patient relationship to the development of medical work. At present, there is still a lack of awareness of the relationship between doctors and patients in clinical teaching. The author expounds the connotation of the consciousness of doctor-patient relationship of medical students, makes clear its importance, and discusses how to carry out the teaching of the consciousness of doctor-patient relationship in clinical practice in order to provide help for clinical teaching.