The “Outline for Building a Powerful Education Country (2024–2035)” clearly puts forward the goal of improving the quality of independent talent training, and the construction of “New Medical Science” focuses on cultivating high-level innovative interdisciplinary talents. In response to the current deficiencies in stomatology talent training at Kunming Medical University, there is an urgent need to promote professional reform and innovation. The reform goal is to construct a new model of stomatological education that deeply integrates first-class professional construction and top-tier talent cultivation, forming a coordinated development mechanism of “first-class professional construction - top-tier talent cultivation”.Key focuses include building a characteristic professional system and innovating the “physician-scientist” training paradigm. Specific measures include reforming the talent training model (such as optimizing the curriculum system, strengthening the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities and international perspectives, and reforming teaching evaluation methods), further improving the curriculum system construction, and optimizing the allocation of educational and teaching resources. It is argued that establishing a talent training system centered on scientific research and innovation capabilities is an inevitable requirement for promoting the high-quality development of stomatology talent training.