Medical higher vocational education, whose main task is to cultivate application talents to meet the needs of regional economic development, is an important part of higher vocational education. The analysis of development modes, development status and development trends of domestic and overseas medical higher vocational education may help to explore the suitable way to the development of medical higher vocational education in China. The current situations of education system, management system, professional set-up and curriculum structure, and teaching staff of domestic and overseas medical higher vocational education are introduced in this paper.