在高等医学教育中实施美育的必要性有四点：一是高等院校学生对于审美素养的普遍需求；二是科学与艺术关系密切；三是医学兼具人文艺术属性；四是重理工轻人文的医学教育发展现状。而诗教美育，是以诗教为手段达成美育目标的教育形态，是中华美育精神在当代美育中的应用和实践，包括在高等医学教育中。其在医学教育中的价值功能主要有，促进医学生君子人格的养成，助力医学生丰厚感性的培养，辅助医学生德育智育的发展。

The necessity of implementing aesthetic education in higher medical education has four points. Firstly, the general demand for aesthetic literacy among students in higher education institutions. Secondly, the close relationship between science and art. Thirdly, the fact that medicine has both humanistic and artistic attributes; and fourthly, the status quo of the development of medical education that emphasizes science and technology rather than the humanities. Poetry-based aesthetic education is an educational form that uses poetry as a means to achieve the goal of aesthetic education, is the application and practice of Chinese aesthetic spirit in contemporary aesthetic education, including in higher medical education. Its value and function in medical education mainly lie in promoting the cultivation of medical students' gentlemanly personality, the cultivation of their sensibility, and assisting in their moral and intellectual development.