Animal surgery courses are a critical component of medical training; however, teaching practices have demonstrated problems, such as the difficulty of interdisciplinary teaching, students’ weak concepts of sterility, poor clinical thinking, insufficient teamwork, shallow emotional investment, and ineffective value guidance. By integrating the characteristics of student learning and utilizing virtual simulation experiments alongside peer role models, an emotional-guidance teaching model has been established to enhance the effectiveness of “life education”, through strengthened emotional identification and improved value guidance. The result indicate that this teaching model forms a closed-loop teaching process, aligns with students’ cognitive patterns and cultivates their comprehensive abilities, and enhances teaching effectiveness.