OBJECTIVE： To explore the teaching mode of the integration of pharmaceutical English and literature retrieval course. METHODS： Qualitative content analysis was adopted to analyze the current situation and integration necessity of pharmaceutical English and literature retrieval course， and the suggestion were put forward the integration and evaluation method. RESULTS： Pharmaceutical English was mainly for training the medical staff with international standards， the common problems were as follows： traditional teaching methods were boring， the content itself was too complex and it was hard to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning； literature retrieval course was mainly for training the information awareness of students to improve the ability to use information acquisition， the common problems were as follows： the contents were not comprehensive enough， target was not strong enough， and practicality needed to be improved. It well met the requiements of the students on scientific literatures or professional information retrieval to integrate pharmaceutical English with literature retrieval course. For the learning of pharmaceutical English and literature retrieval course， the students should be guided to use pharmaceutical English retrieval tools for searching professional knowledge， and write a literature search practice report by using pharmaceutical English vocabulary. Mutiple evaluation methods instead of traditional ones evaluated learning effect，such as literature search practice report was included in overall performance evaluation. CONCLUSIONS： The organic combination of the 2 courses can improve students’ enthusiasm of studying and the professional English level and ability of information acquisition to make students benefit from the combination of the 2 courses.